Unfortunately this is a questions AFAP should be asking the industry, a proper union would make contact with the people it currently represents and the people it hopes or should represent. Anyone remember a couple year ago when the TWU was contacting pilots around Australia?
It would make my day if I saw an AFAP rep walk into any aviation company with a note board, pen and a brochure or two, signing up people and getting signatures for a petition. It would absolutely be a great day!
Who do you think the AFAP is? I'll answer that for you. It is a sum of it's members and if the members don't get off there collective butts then no matter how much bitching you do on this forum, nothing will change. The paid staff of the AFAP are a very small group of people with limited resources, it does and always has rely on the membership to donate their time to make things happen. Do nothing and rest assured that no improvement will be forthcoming.