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Schools Minister Nick Gibb

given that 150,000 signatures calling on the government's request to delete the proposed changes to pensions for teachers

Thousands of teachers across the country traveled to Westminster on Wednesday to urge their members to reverse the proposed changes to its pension plan.

presented Nick Gibb, the schools minister, with a petition signed by more than 150,000 employees, calling for reforms to be scrapped.

The government has proposed placing new teachers in England and Wales in a career in the media, rather than a final salary scheme and raising the retirement age of State for teachers in England and Wales from 65 to 68.

Your pension contributions could increase by half in 2014 and ministers who want to change the way pensions are calculated. This means that pensions are linked to the index of consumer prices, which has always increased by a smaller amount each year that the index of retail prices.

If reforms are canceled, teachers are planning to stage its biggest strike in recent decades. Members of four unions voted to make rolling strikes, including a coordinated strike on November 30. A, the Association of Teachers and Teachers (ATL), is considered the most moderate of teacher unions and never had a national strike before. The National Association of Principals (NAHT) is the voice of its members, while the NASUWT will vote next month.

Lynda Wood, a special education teacher in Wokingham, Berkshire, met with his deputy, Rob Wilson, who represents a conservative reading of the East. Wood said he was concerned that the time for young teachers had paid their college expenses, were married, and I thought about buying a home, they have no money to contribute to their pension .

Dilwyn Hughes, a French teacher in a secondary school in Pwllheli, North Wales, said the reforms meant that the government was reneging on its promises to the teachers. "It really galvanized the profession," he said.

Union leaders said the ministers had little time to negotiate with them on reforms before the strike next month.

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