PANJIM, June 1 -- The local employees of the multi-national soft drink company in the Sanguem Industrial Estate on Sunday said that almost 90 per cent of the workers currently employed at the factory are locals.

Addressing media persons, they informed that these workers are mostly from Sanguem, neighbouring villages and a few from Margao, who earlier worked at the factory during its operations at Arlem.

They claimed that the allegations by a section of disgruntled local workers that the company is presently being run with migrant labourers are "false and baseless".

Agitated over the baseless allegations, the workers claimed that during the course of factory operations at Sanguem, the company officials never ill-treated the locals, but ...