Regent Foods lashes at Vico Sotto, says it will not be ‘cowered by mayor’s threats’

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Regent Foods Corporation (RFC) on Monday hit back at Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto, saying that it will “contemplate” of bringing their business elsewhere and that they “will not be cowered by the mayor’s threats.”

Sotto publicly called on the snack food company on Sunday to rethink their position on the charges filed against 23 people who have been arrested after a violent picket dispersal at RFC’s factory in Pasig City on November 9.

In a response to Sotto’s Facebook post on Sunday, RFC said that the strike of its workers, which began on October 16, was “never legitimate and never peaceful” until its dispersal on November 9, contrary to how the situation was depicted by the mayor. “This request merely fell on deaf ears, which is precisely what constrained RFC to resort to private security assistance for the sole purpose of reopening the gates of the company and resuming its usual business operations,” the food firm said.

It added that the company “may simply accept its fate that the Pasig City administration will unjustly make life hard” for the company and its 400 workers, and “contemplate simply bringing its business elsewhere—a truly painful outcome for a corporation that has considered Pasig City its home for a total of three decades now.”

According to the RFC, the strikers not only resisted the security personnel but also “blatantly attacked” them using “sharp weapons.” It said that several security agents were injured, with “one of them is, in fact, still in critical condition.”

 

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