Nearly 50 schools in North Somerset are shut today, as teachers join more than 16 thousand public sector workers on strike in Somerset...

They're angry over the government's planned changes to pensions...which will make them pay more and work longer...

Nancy is a teacher from Worle - she says the strike is about the long-term, not just today:

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Libraries in Weston, Banwell, Congresbury and Nailsea are shut today and there could be problems at Bristol Airport as immigration officials there join the strike...

It's not just in Somerset that workers are striking either - this is happening across the country...

Nigel Costley is from the TUC in the South West

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Chancellor George Osborne maintains the government's proposing a decent pensions deal for public sector workers:

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