Emergency workers carry bags of trash during the ongoing street cleaning unions' strike in Madrid, November 16, 2013. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
MADRID (Reuters) - A 12-day strike by street sweepers that left Madrid littered with garbage was set to end on Sunday after private maintenance companies cancelled plans to lay off a fifth of the Spanish capital's street cleaners.
The cleaners walked off the job on November 5 after three companies with maintenance contracts with city hall sought to freeze salaries and lay off 1,134 out of 6,000 workers.
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