What is perhaps a little strange is that the person raising these concerns happens to be the Regulator in charge! Clearly the "buck" suffers little deceleration as it passes over his desk!
And the FAA have done a total disservice to the industry by pandering to airlines profits instead of flight safety and allowing it to get into this state in the first place.
Please, recognize code speak when you hear it! - He's calling/begging for help and he needs YOU the pilots to get it! There's a heavy status quo that needs to be upended for this kind of change to take place, to cut out the incestuous relationship with some parts of faa-middle management and the airlines they are to oversee (a few short years after their tenure with the FAA go on to cushy positions in-you-know-where) Obviously, the reins of economy, industry and finance have been untended by any kind of oversight for at least the last 8 years in favor of 'unfettered deregulation' and 'make money at all costs' - by calling on senior pilots to speak up, that gives them the 'groundswell' of backing to go up against the SouthWestArlines and their ilk - failure to recruit you pilots FIRST would only have any assistance with duty time legislation,etc, be cast as "socialist govt meddling", shut down (and shot down) before it can even begin.