You pilots, in the meaning of as a professional group of people doing the same job, will only achieve the necessary changes if you go public full way.
Mangement and regulating authorities will do nothing on behalf of individual complaints and recommendation. Most unions are toothless, and it would be interesting anyway how many pilots are organized in unions. Nothing will change with threads like this on airline forums or with private blogs or email exchanges.
It is the travelling public which can change things.
Do not be mistaken, they buy the cheapest ticket if available, but they did not invent them. The cheap tickets are a result from competition of the airlines for the biggest market growth and the highest profit, and you yourself took part by financing this system with increased work hours, decreased working conditions and decreasing salaries. Do not make the travelling public responsible for the misery of present employment terms. They do not know about your misery, that does not imply that they would not care. For them you are still skygods with a dream job and a dream salary. You have to open their eyes that their view of your job and your person is wrong, that the times of adequately paid skygod is long gone. To achieve that goal you have to climb down from your ladder and you have to side with them. You both are sitting in the same alloy tube and you both want to reach the destination in a professional and safe way. The public will pay for the necessary changes, as they did for airbags and other safety improvements in their cars. It is a question of information and communication of the necessary changes, not the cost of them.
You yourself against management without the public and the regulating authorities are on lost ground.