Half of the 50-cent increase is being paid for by the processors, the other half by the union.
They want the Anglo-Saxon economic model - a liberalised economy, open markets, free trade, an end to the agricultural subsidies that, for the French, have been the bedrock of the European Union for half a century.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said the half-day strike caused "massive disruption".
British Airways scrapped the Union Jack on half its fleet to seem more international.
PCS, more change is likely to mean more resistance from the union that represents half the civil service.
Around half the 67bn Euro European Union structural fund allocation to the country is being spent on road development, sanitation and environmental improvements.
Its control over both the production and the enforcement of legislation gives the commission enormous power, in a Union in which half of all new laws now emanate from Brussels.
"The structure of economic and monetary union has been left half-built, " Mr Zervos told me.
Mr Leffler believes passionately that American policymaking towards the Soviet Union defined the second half of the 20th century.
Sneers about domestic politics hurting Hungary's presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011 proved largely groundless.
Belgian ministers made a decent fist of their country's six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2010.
Spain has the highest levels of youth unemployment in the European Union, with almost half its under-25s out of work, followed closely by Greece.
So that will be one big priority when Germany takes on the presidency of the European Union in the first half of next year.
Kevin Pass, head organiser for the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, says that his union recruited more than half the 1, 000-strong workforce at an electronics plant in Gourock, near Glasgow, within 12 weeks.
But the first and perhaps the biggest test for Finland's next prime minister, whoever he is, will come when the country embarks on its first presidency of the European Union in the second half of this year.
Mr Sarkozy hopes to use these platforms to boost his standing abroad and his poll numbers at home, just as he did when France held the presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2008.
Even though the designated days compromise got more support than any other option, just over half of those interviewed thought the union flag protestors were right to take to the streets when Belfast City Council made its decision in early December.
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The same gang is suspected of having stolen 62, 000 euros from the same credit union a year and a half ago, also using shotguns.
Poles narrowly approved a new constitution that strengthens the powers of parliament and helps prepare Poland for membership of the European Union, but less than half the electorate turned out.
Councillor Matthew Riddle, deputy leader of the Conservative group in South Gloucestershire said it was "extraordinarily petty and disrespectful" that councillors with the other two parties would play politics and prevent the Union flag being flown at half-mast.
In addition to OPEC's attempts to increase supply, the International Energy Agency also expects non-members to boost output by a combined 1.2m bpd over the coming year, of which around half will be from the former Soviet Union.
None of these factors would have been fatal, but for an abrupt tightening of credit in early 2008 that, in effect, cut Smart Union's working capital in half.
The main work of finding a compromise in all this will bear on Germany, which holds the Union's presidency during the first half of 1999.
He is doing well with the Teamsters (who favour drilling for oil in Alaska) and the half-a-million-member carpenters' union (who have doubled their contributions to Republican congressional candidates in 2002).
Even though the amount of total paid time off is about average for the European Union, some years, more than half of Spain's public holidays can fall in the middle of the week.
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The SP is not against the European Union, but would slash its budget in half.
Immigrants from the former Soviet Union, only moderately religious, make up half the population, but their birth rates are low.
"Danny has had a great second half of the season, " said the Rugby Football Union's director of elite rugby Rob Andrew.
First Union's share price has fallen by half since it bought CoreStates.
Thanks to strong growth and cuts in payroll taxes, their unemployment is at a five-year low of 5.2%, under half the 10.7% rate in the European Union as a whole.
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