As someone looking for his first job i'm getting to meet a lot of pilots from GA up to RPT and as far as I can see this is wide spread across the entire industry. Your all quite correct in saying that this can't go on, its hard to link everyone together especially with a union that seems to do very little to bring us together, or perhaps its our own fault for not having enough enough people becoming members of AFAP and those who are not voicing their opinions.
In respect to gathering people together i'd say that AFAP probably has the best chance of doing this but needs motivation. In general i'm not sure what PPrunes stand point would be, but perhaps someone with some standing in the community should attempt to organise an online petition? There are a number of websites that allow the creation of free petitions online that people can sign their names to, the link to this petition could be posted on the forums and with enough people behind it AFAP would have no choice but to move on it?