While most of the young guys (while i fit the age group, i do not agree with many of the younger guy's general perspectives and general sense of entitlement) do not understand is that the days of going to a regional for 3-4 years and moving on to a major is pretty much gone.

Guys who have given up scope have for whatever the reasons they voted to do so, (pay, other incentives, greed, complacency, ego) have nearly irreprebly crippled the prospect for my generation (mid 20's) to have a serious career in this industry.
NO PILOT GROUP SHOULD ENTERTAIN THE IDEA OF GIVING UP ANY MORE SCOPE. We need to fight to get it back. And that is going to be the fight of our careers, spanning a couple decades.

In the future, in Mainline contracts, the pilots have to fight for min fleet size conditions with ratios of mainline to express getting more and more favorable as contract after contract in the future are signed. This is more important than anything else, including pay raises mainly at the senior level. Pay scales need to be smoothed out more, allowing more pay while still junior.

I seriously could write an essay and what I said above was just a blurb of what I'm thinking. I know 100 pros and cons to what I suggested, so please realize that I'm advocating something that I understand is extrordinarily hard to attain.