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Airport employees across the country have called for demonstrations against the move. He, however, said they won’t boycott work during the period.On December 28, a total of 110 non-executive employees would take part in the mass casual leave protest, he said. Coimbatore: More than 100 non-executive workers with the city airport would go on causal lave on December 28 to register their protest against the move to privatize airports in Thiruvananthapuram, Mangaluru, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati. “Also, people are now handing over their land to the government for the airport expansion activities. But if the airports are privatized, they would have to hand it over to a private entity,” he said.Kumar said non-executive employees with the city airport would stage a hunger strike for three days beginning Monday near the airport premises..