David Van Os is a labor lawyer. His wife, Rachel, is the "office administrator" of his law firm and, by all accounts, a real virago who terrorized the staff so much they banded together in 1999 and 2000 to form a union for protection.
The Austin Chronicle carried the story. Their treatment got so much worse they went to the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) which filed a formal complaint against Van Os on March 29, 2001. A real "man of the people".