Code,518099
Interviewer,Ashley Leciejewski
Interviewee,Robert Leciejewski
Date,4/18/11
Abstract,"This interview was conducted with the interviewer's father, Robert Leciejewski, an employee at Ford Motor Company in Brook Park. He has been an employee at Ford, on and off, since 1978. The interview discusses what it is like to be an auto worker in Cleveland, some of the challenges associated with the job, as well as special memories about the plant, the automotive global economy, Ford's infamous layoffs, and his hopes for the company in the future. The interview covers a wide variety of topics, including everything from Slavic Village to prostitution in the Ford parking lot."
Tags,"automobile manufacturing, manufacturing, industry, Ford Motor Company, Slavic Village, oral history"
Special Notes,
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0,Introductions. Background.
1,Growing up in Cleveland in Slavic Village.
2,Working at Ford Motor Company. 
3,Differences between his father's experience working at the foundry and his own.
4,cont'd
5,The way his father smelled coming home after work.
6,The work that he does at Ford.
7,Getting laid off from Ford in 1981 and the lists of layoffs on Fridays.
8,People worked and sold things at Ford Motor Company. 
9,Began on the assembly line before being laid off.
10,Ford began hiring again.
11,Getting his job back at Ford with perfect attendance for 13 years.
12,Rehired in 1995 to work in production.
13,Worked in body and assembly plant in Lorain.
14,The grueling work on the assembly line. Finished college.
15,Went back to Brookpark and passed the apprenticeship test.
16,Worked as a Journeyman at Ford. Keeping the assembly line going.
17,cont'd
18,The dangers in the factory.
19,Waiting to be called back to maintenance.
20,Works in the block machining area.
21,Diversity of workers in the factory.
22,Where the work was outsourced to.
23,Having a family and working for Ford.
24,The Brookpark facility.
25,The airport was close to the Brookpark facility.
26,Watching Air Force One arrive in Cleveland.
27,The engine plant room where his father worked.
28,Story about the maintenance department.
29,"Stories about his coworker ""Wild Bill."""
30,cont'd
31,cont'd
32,The people he met and friendships he acquired made his experience at Ford enjoyable.
33,Ford as a blue collar job.
34,People selling things at work on payday. One man sold jewelry.
35,He had payment plans to buy jewelry. Card games and gambling.
36,Prostitution and strip clubs around the factory.
37,A bar you could cash checks at.
38,Farmer's Market in the parking lot on Fridays.
39,The volume of employees and the long hours they worked.
40,People who lived in the factory because of their impending divorce.
41,How he feels about America's perception of the auto worker.
42,The current pay rates. End of interview.