The government won't LET you do DOH.

If you fight against it... you might have to learn about:

McCaskill-Bond

Try as you might, you're not going to staple if the lists merge. And if you fight hard enough to get it to arbitration, you might not like the results either...

so it seems like playing fair if the XJT guys have the scope clause in their contract work would be the best way to go...

It'd be real embarrassing to be a regional with labor strife a la US-Airways/America West