United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain served up another surprise on Friday, which has become the day the union announces new plans for its stand-up strikes against the Big Three (GM, Ford, and Stellantis).

"We’re done waiting until Fridays to expand our strikes," Fain said in a Facebook Live address this morning. Fain said the union will stand up and strike at selected plants at any time, which is what happened on Wednesday when the UAW called members at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant to walk off the factory floor. Fain also implored all members of the UAW to join current picketers at stand-up strike locations in an effort to show union strength and mark one month of strikes on Saturday.

Fain said the Big Three had come to expect Friday to be a deadline and withheld final offers until Fain gave his weekly address. This needed to change, he said, in order to speed up the process. “This week we entered an entirely new phase of our stand-up strike,” Fain said.

According to the UAW, for two weeks Ford (F) negotiators had told them there was more money to be had with the offer. On Wednesday, Fain said Ford owed the union an offer, but it received the same economic offer from two weeks ago, with no more money. At that point, Fain said to Ford negotiators in Dearborn, “You just cost yourself Kentucky Truck Plant.”

Following the walk-off at Kentucky Truck, Ford held a news conference where president Kumar Galhotra told UAW negotiators the automaker was “at the limit” of what it could offer financially. “Going further will hurt our ability to invest in the business like we need to invest,” Galhotra said.

Fain’s rebuttal hit on the union's themes of inequality and fairness. “You know who’s reached their limit? The tens of thousands of workers without retirement benefits,” he said.

Currently the UAW strikes have led to nearly 34,000 workers walking off the job across the Big Three’s plants and parts distribution centers. Recent reports of the economic costs of the strike’s impact on the US economy have reached into the billions.

Fain, however, was defiant in the face of those reports. “We strike for four weeks and everyone loses their minds … when working class people stand up and ask for more, it’s a crisis”

With the rhetoric heating up on both sides, the UAW strikes against the Big Three are showing no signs of slowing down.

“Unless we start to see real gains … I predict there will be a lot more strikes on the horizon,” Fain said.

Pras Subramanian is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on Twitter and on Instagram.

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