(The recruitment ban is a very soft way to do it)
ACM
I believe that the words you have spoken are the reason that the aviation community is divided over the AOA/IFALPA action/inaction.
If you are all serious about this then stand up as a group of employees and do something. The chosen way of asking prospective employees to fight for your cause when you as a group do nothing makes it pretty hard to mount a convincing argument. The "soft way" has proven to be ineffective and is most definitely not working.
Yes I know there are reasons that this was the chosen path but this is not in any major way hurting the company and the company is most definitely not going to negotiate anything the way things stand.