The workers still technically belong to the union, he said, but the yearly contract negotiations are a mereformality and the union barely participates.
But while some might see the interview as a mereformality, for others this face-to-face encounter proves to be a major stumbling block in what is already a competitive application process.
The eight candidates in question have all accumulated prolific statistics and distinctions of honor that would have made enshrinement in the hallowed halls of Cooperstown a mereformality under normal circumstances.
One would hope that renewals become a mereformality, that pricing firms up and that the net income line on that initial chart we showed you starts to move toward to revenue line, instead of away from it.