Calling won't do any harm, but it's a fine line between being interested and being a pain!
As we're still in the process of merging with FCA, crew numbers seem to be 'unknown'. i.e there has been talk of redundancies, unpaid leave and part-time working. At present nothing appears to have been finalised.
To give an idea of current workload, many FOs at some of the smaller bases have had only a handful of flights rostered each month since before Christmas (or even no rostered flights in some months!). We'll probably be 'about-right-to-overcrewed' for the summer.
IMHO the wildcards are the arrival of the 787, which will take alot of crews out of the system if/when it turmns up; senior FOs leaving for commands elsewhere now that it is 5+years to a command (8-10 for a new join?); re-retirement of the over 60s who may have had enough. Management talk of a 'resignation bulge' that may sort out the numbers.