The largest strike in the industrial sector broke out in Germany: over 3,800 factories and over 400,000 workers stopped working.
The shutdown of the machines and production lines affected the flagships of the German automobile industry: Audi, Mercedes Benz, B. from. Woo, Porsche and Volkswagen. The most massive rally was at the Audi factory in the city of Neckarsulm, where more than 6,500 people participated in the rally at the same time.
Since the employers' organizations refused to meet the protesters' conditions, and offered a significantly lower increase in percentages with deferred payments, the workers switched to a complete shutdown of production. The current demonstrations have already been called the biggest wave of warning strikes in German industry in recent times.