I resent paying ALPA money since their priority is and always has been mainline. For mainline pilots to get the things they do, regional pilots have to get shoved down a little more.

It is what it is. The regional model only benefits the regional pilots insofar as it's a pathway to get to the majors. Sure it'd be nice to improve all of our contracts, but improvements are negligible at best and the priority should be getting to a major, not sitting right seat at a regional for 9 years for a slightly less bad contract. Then we too can make $48,000 a month while living in a crashpad (?).