Demanding it in a contract or striking would be the old fashion way. In the long run there is no way to raise the wages until the govenment gets labor friendly and imposes rules tying management pay with labor pay. People a lot smarter than me have been discussing this for years.

The rgionals will be in tight spot forever, just by the nature of their business. They will be cycled to the bottom the day they get too expensive. Comair/Air Whisk/Horizon.. The question is have Repub/SkyWest/Eagle learned this lesson. For pilots to maintain a higher wage than their peers for a sustained amount of time, the pilots have to provide a better service than their peers. This is one area ALPA screws their own.