Contract sanitation workers at a Coimbatore Medical college hospital staged a sit-in protest of demanding pay hike and regularization of services.
Coimbatore: The contract sanitation workers of the Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital are on a sit-in protest demanding implementation of the pay hike.
Around 300 contract sanitation workers working at the Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital are paid Rs 412 per day.
Last year, Coimbatore District collector Sameeran announced that the wage would be increased to Rs 721 per day.
Till date, the contract sanitation workers working in the Government hospital have not been given the new pay hike.
More than 80 sanitation workers who participated in the protest also demanded regularization of their services.
While contract sanitation workers are on strike, the Dean of the CMCH Nirmala held talks with the protesting workers as sanitation works have not been carried out since morning in the premises.
The workers demanded that a written assurance be given to them in the presence of Tahsildar to give up the strike.