Lots of logical problems in this thread.

First, the whole misconception that pilot unions don't provide professional negotiators. This is almost universally believed by people with no Union volunteer experience.

When a contract is being negotiated, ALPA provides all the professional help the Committee needs from legal advice to financial services that include evaluating an airline's books. The provide recommendations as to the tactics and what's acceptable.

At that point it is up the the PILOTS on the Negotiating Committee and the line PILOTS who ratify the contract to make their decisions. If you have a poor contract it isn't because you didn't have professional support, its because YOU made poor decisions.

Second: As long as there are young guys willing to sell their souls for flight time the regionals will never pay squat. If you're working for $20 an hour, you have no one but yourself to blame. There's a whole big world of aviation out there, but YOU are willing to prostitute yourself for substandard wages and then come on the Internet and whine about it.

Check the mirror. There's the guy you need to blame for your crappy job.