Our seniority and longevity system is why pilot groups keep voting in pay cuts over and over again. No one wants to start over. The longevity system needs to go. We need to have one pay scale. A 12 year CRJ first officer should make the same as a year 1 CRJ first officer. It is the same job. There are pilots at my airline that want to take equipment out of it and go to a purely longevity scale. This is the wrong way. We need to make it so it is not such a big deal if an airline goes out of business. We need true unity. The Pinnacle pilots voted as a whole how every single pilot group out there would have. United, Delta, US Airways, American, Frontier, etc. all voluntarily voted for pay cuts to help their airline. On the regional side, Mesa, Comair, Expressjet, etc. same thing. It is not the individual pilots fault. We are very predictable and easily played. Delta needed more large regional jets so they convinced the Delta pilots to give up more large rj scope. They put in a bunch of ratios and threw some 717's so it would not sting so much. DALPA actually believes it was a win. We need to change our culture. We need to be able to start over without losing our houses. Our leverage would sky-rocket.