You're absolutly right backspace.
Asking "prospective employee to fight for your case" is not the correct way to defend your interest. We saw recently that other airline pilot from other company are using much more strong means to fight their management for much less important issue. (industrial action to get pay rise for instance).
I am not a specialist of Hong Kong social law (if there is any
but IFALPA ask for a ban on recruitment as a way to fight. We apply SOP in our flight deck (good or bad sometime). We should follow IFALPA because the dispute is a very serious one. No management should sack pilot in such a way CX did it.