UAW president Shawn Fain to automakers: "Pony up"

Driving the news: UAW president Shawn Fain said Friday on a Facebook Live broadcast that the union is done expanding the strike on a weekly cadence.

• "We are prepared at any time to call on more locals to stand up and walk out," he said.
• He also defended himself against the suggestion that he's promised too much: "I want to be clear on this point — I didn't raise members' expectations. Our broken economy is what's raising our members' expectations, and our members are right to be angry."

Catch up quick: Fain's comments came after the union on Wednesday surprised Ford by expanding its strike to include the automaker's truck plant in Kentucky, where 8,700 UAW members walked out.

• Ford responded Thursday that it won't offer any more economic value to the union.

• "We have reached our limit," said Kumar Galhotra, president of the Ford Blue division. "We've actually stretched ourselves to get to this point."

Fain said Thursday that he "found a pathetic irony in that statement."

• "You know who's reached their limit? The tens of thousands of Ford workers with no retirement security," he said. "You know who's stretched themselves? The Ford workers who didn't get a single raise for a decade."

The bottom line: "We are looking for only one thing – a deal, a tentative agreement," Fain said, adding that it's time for the automakers to "pony up."