The debate splits pretty evenly between those that have to fly to Spain and those that are lucky enough not to.
This is not about CTOTs or flight levels it is about the spanish controllers being bloody minded to pilots as part of their work to rule. If you sit in a dark room somewhere in northern europe you may be expected to be sympathetic to your colleagues in Spain. My point is that they are being needlessly confrontational with pilots who are not the enemy, but will increasingly become so if they continue in the same vein.
According to the spanish government the average pay was over 300,000 euros per controller in 2009, with 28 earning over 700,000 and just two on 90,000. The only guy who has responded to this with alternate figures seems to be one of the unlucky two. The rest have kept very quiet. Sure the government is playing propaganda. But other than Perez producing a roster for August which seems to show management responding to the sickout (in excess of 10 percent in July) nobody has been very convincing on the controller side.
Put your side of the debate more convincingly and maybe we can help each other. Continue with the confrontation (with pilots) and we will start finding ways to respond like Nightstop's suggestion.