 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Healthcare workers across Germany took to the streets on September 30th. They were demanding better working conditions and higher wages. In Berlin, healthcare workers from various hospitals joined a warning strike organized by the Verdi Trade Union. The protests were held at the same time that a meeting of federal and state health ministers was taking place. The key slogans were, we demand system-relevant pay now. It's not the strike that is a threat to the patients and applause doesn't cure anyone. Verdi is demanding an increase in salaries by 4.8% for federal and local employees. They're also demanding an increase in trainee pay and giving emergency service staff a maximum 45-hour work week. The strikes are part of a week-long action called for by the union. Public transport workers, rubbish disposal, as well as childcare workers, joins the protesters in various parts of the country. D. Linke, the left, has expressed solidarity with the health workers' protests in Germany. Party leader Bernd Reichinger has stated that the hospitals urgently need more nurses. These need to be paid higher and working conditions considerably improved. Germany's daily coronavirus cases rose the most since late April, with around 2,500 cases being reported on October 1st. More than 29,000 have tested positive in around 9,500 have already died in the country. What was done by you and the millions of other employees in health care and in other parts of the country was done in advance. That is harmful and transparent.