OK, since you asked.....Here is my opinion based on my ALPA experience...

ALPA is complicent with management in creating this mess.

Randy Babbitt told me and admitted in an interview with AirInc. that it was a mistake to allow the outsourcing of turboprop flying. He said that the Eastern MEC was approached about the outsourcing of regional turboprop flying to cities like MCN, CSG, ABY, VLD, etc....The Eastern MEC wasn't interested in flying Beech 99s and Metros...Mistake number one by the elitist mainline folks....

Early 90's, the RJ comes around....starts replacing TPs on some routes...No problem, it only seats 50 people....We don't care and we don't want to fly "little jets"....Mistake number two by the elitist mainline folks....

Mid 90's, Air Willy, ASA, and BisEx start flying Bae146s.....Mainline pilots start to take notice for the first time...A day late and a dollar short....They try to use scope as a remote control to control size of aircraft...Mistake number three by the elitest mainline pilots...

When I got hired by ASA in 1994, it only took 2 years for a senior ASA captain to make parity at a mainline carrier....Now it takes about 5 to 6 years....Many of us have now made a career at the "regionals" because ALPA and the mainline pilots were too good to fly "little airplanes"....

Fast forward to this current "emergency"...Remember, a failure on YOUR part does not constitute an emergency on my part...Now due to YOUR failures on scope issues, you decide to attack junior Skywest pilots...many of which will be furloughed United pilots....Sorry, but that dog won't hunt with me....The first Skywest pilot who is denied the jumpseat, will result in me denying every CAL and UAL pilot the jumpseat....You decide, but be careful with your decision..