Teachers, daycare workers, police, firefighters and state administrators were among those involved in the walkout.
Employees at hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein will begin a two-day warning strike.
Unions are demanding a 10.5% pay increase as well as city-state bonuses of 300 ($326) in Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg.
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