Employees of the Council of Ministers took strike action on 14 December and planned another day’s strike on 16 December in protest at attempts by Member State governments to block their annual pay increase. The employees are covered by a formula that links their pay increases to an average of those in specific Member States. However, some national governments want to block the increase because
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