ALPA will solve nothing here, only add to each pilots cost. ALPA is a grotesquely bloated band of fatcats looking to fluff their coffers to keep their financial engine running. The problems here are too systemic. Parker knows exactly what buttons to push here and will push them in 2019/2020 ALPA or not. The most critical statement of the VP's letter to the pilots is the fact the opportunity for self-help is virtually zero, thus this pilot group's odds of true change is virtually zero.
We are bankrupt of leverage and completely predictable and thus can and will be knocked over with a feather. It's this pilot groups destiny.