FUENLABRADA, Spain: To cheers and applause, 220 employees are celebrating their return to work at a Coca-Cola factory near Madrid after they blocked its closure in court, marking a rare legal victory for workers in Spain where one in five people are out of work.

After what supporters call a David-and-Goliath battle, the reinstated workers were greeted with a guard of honor by comrades when they arrived each day at dawn this week to start their shift.

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