Rosenthal, 63, is the only child of a Bronx postal worker and a biology teacher.
They just grabbed whomever they could waiters, a construction worker, a dance teacher in a primary school.
Kilfoyle - a father of five and former labourer, teacher and youth worker - first came to prominence when he took on Militant as Labour's north west regional organiser.
They range in age from early 20s to 70s and include a Wal-Mart worker, a high school teacher, a retired school bus driver and a student in his junior year at Penn State who has ties to the football team and knows some witnesses in the case.
Ms. Longoria, born in Corpus Christi, is the fourth daughter of a special-education teacher and Army base worker.
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If you give a teacher or a construction worker or a receptionist, just working folks -- if you give them a little more money, what do they do?
Because what happens is, look, when a teacher or a construction worker or a receptionist or a nurse, when they've got a little more money in their pocket, what do they do?
If a supply teacher is employed for 12 weeks they are entitled - under Agency Worker Regulations - to the pay of a permanent member of staff doing the same job.
When doctors occupy a service niche like the chambermaid in Las Vegas or the school teacher in Chicago, the expectations and compensation of the physician-worker will be defined in ways that may make the benefits of collective bargaining appear very attractive.
And the reason is, when you give a family farmer, or you give a construction worker, or you give a receptionist, or you give a nurse or a teacher a little bit more money in their pockets, what do they do?
You're the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard-working men and women who don't always make the headlines, but have always written America's story.
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