I finally had time to follow Silber's advice and read the Tech Log cover to cover. Dave Newberry and Glen Sycamore produced two excellent articles on CAD371 and Fatigue Management Systems. They should be more widely published.
It's all stuff we should know, to understand how the best efforts of HKALPA and the AOA backed up with scientific evidence are rejected by CAD bureaucrats. In some cases this is caused by a post colonial affection to the old ways, and a constant referral back to how the CAA UK is doing it. (I have seen this slavish referral to CAA with disturbing effect on airworthiness issues, but that is another story.)
Yes, read it and weep. The AOA representatives to the Flight Time Limitations Working Group appear to have done their best, but it is very difficult to argue to a closed mind.
This is why the company are not worried about paying vast overtime for the next few months. The crew productivity per ATK is going to go ballistic when the new FTLs come in.