Hey, here's a concept. How about airline X just uses it's own pilots to do all of airline X's flying, and quits using subcontractors. It's the proliferation of all these small lift providers which is keeping wages depressed in this industry vis a vis the whipsaw.

Now I know that there are some who will answer, "But what about those pilots who didn't want to fly an RJ and caused the birth of this mess?"

Well, most of those guys have since retired, and do we really want to keep paying the price for their stupidity? With that said though, there is really no way to change things until every pilot supports changing the status quo at the regional level, and that's not very likely to happen.