In Detroit, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, announced a strategy on Thursday calling on select facilities to strike in order to “keep the companies guessing.”

Tonight, for the first time in our history, we will strike all three of the Big Three at once. We are using a new strategy, the “stand up” strike. We will call on select facilities, locals or units to stand up and go on strike. This strategy will keep the companies guessing. It will give our national negotiators maximum leverage and flexibility in bargaining. And if we need to go all out, we will. This is our generation’s defining moment. The money is there. The cause is righteous. The world is watching. And the U.A.W. is ready to stand up. This is our defining moment. Thank you.