That leverage would come from the industry's mainline pilots.

I don't know how the dominoes are going to fall, but if a significant population of pilots are furloughed after C-19 and the RJ industry experiences robust growth (again), there will be allot of angry (voting and dues paying) mainline pilots, both employed and unemployed. Those angry pilots will carry a long and heavy crowbar threw the hallowed halls of ALPA to provide some leverage to the problem.

Likely everyone's learned their lesson after the 9-11 financial contraction and recovery. Those same lessons can now be applied to the C-19 financial contraction and recovery within the transportation sector and specifically commercial aviation.

Just curious, how long has it been since Bill Couette flew an airplane? 4th consecutive term?