The longer this goes on, the more time management has to implement plan B.
A secondary workforce sourced and ready to step in temporarily. If you don’t think they are already planning this, you are naive - it’s their ultimate wet dream.
They will use this just as with CC to forever screw over the Pilots and force a new pay scale. It’ll be worth the short term pain for them, and easily justified.
You need to act, and act now.