In other words, market forces.
What all pilots need to do (all employed people, for that matter) is to start out from the premise that they have no value whatsoever until someone comes along who is willing to pay them to do something. The value that the person has to their employer is what determines their salary, not some misguided, union-fed, utopian view of their importance on the planet.
Anyone who thinks that airlines are going to hike their prices in an ultra-competitive environment, purely to satisfy the greed of their pilots, deserves to be fitted for a strait-jacket immediately...