"Until I started analysis, I was a sort of a rank-and-filer," he recalled.
Thus he would arrive on his motorcycle at the grandest houses in the uniform of an RAF rank-and-filer and nurture his friendships with the powerful and famous, including Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.
Steel mills traditionally have focused on the quality and quantity of goods produced rather than how workers interact, and managers often resist the idea of taking rank-and-filer workers off the factory floor or paying them overtime for meetings so they can become collaborators.
As Nixon hoped, white rank-and-filers abandoned the Democrats in droves.
Mr. Paterson, a former Senate minority leader, has limited tools to keep rank-and-filers in line.
In opinion polls, Republican rank-and-filers, as distinct from Party professionals, strongly favor the idea of popular election.
The annual salaries for members of Congress — $174,000 for most rank-and-filers — is exempt from sequester cuts.
They might have raised the minimum wage, something that, by the evidence of every recent poll, a vast majority of Republican rank-and-filers support.
Combatively anti-labor, reflecting the director's prejudices, Hoover's "G-men" also tried stemming the 1930s union upsurge, in which both my parents were vocal rank-and-filers, by threatening militants and their sympathisers and feeding dirt to employer groups and anti-union newspapers.
An unremarkable rank-and-filer in a 25-person billing department, he says he cooked the books, under pressure from higher-ups, to help bolster MCI's growth.
The rank-and-filers think he does, and that's enough.
