MANILA -- Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Sunday urged Regent Foods Corporation to drop its complaint against 23 people detained over a labor protest on Nov. 9.
"These people are not criminals; they do not have the goal of hurting you. They are fighting for what they believe to be just. You can continue with the labor dispute without sending the poor and powerless to jail," he said.
Sotto said he met and listened to both the Regent management and its workers following a protest that resulted in violence and the arrest of 23 people: 20 workers, 2 members of another organization and a tricycle driver who "just went down to see what was going on."
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