LIMA, May 4: Tens of thousands of Peruvian miners on Friday ended a nationwide strike for better wages after reaching a deal with the government, unions and the government said.

“The government has a 60-day deadline to make good on the points agreed in the deal that has been signed,” the head of the federation of miners, metal and ironworkers unions Luis Castillo told reporters.

He said the government had responded favourably to the federation's demands.

The workers had called for pay hikes, better pension schemes, and want 80,000 workers to be given proper contracts.—AFP