Members of the local wing of the CITU participated in a black badge protest, urging the Coimbatore Corporation to regularize the contract workers.

Coimbatore Corporation has a workforce of over one thousand contract workers, who carry out the various maintenance and sanitation works. These employees have been working for many years at very low wages. The contract workers, who are members of the local rural wing of CITU, stage occasional protests voicing their demands. Their long-delayed charter of demands includes filling up of vacant posts, fair wages, and regularization of job. The members wore black badges to work in order to express their protest.

The local body union Secretary K. Rathina Kumar addressed the protesting contract workers at Ramanathapuram. Other senior members of the union were also present at the meeting.