The solution here is simple. They deregulated the airline industry back in 78, but left the labor unions crippled under the requirments of the RLA. Do one of two things.

1 Reregulate the industry, partially, to infuse stability

OR

2 Remove us from the RLA and let our unions bargain real contracts,
under regular labor laws.... can you say minimum wage for all duty hours
plus your flight pay, plus your per diem.... then 1 hour extra pay per
week minimum for doing your manual and jep updates... and 1/2 hour pay
per day for care and maint of the uniform...

Think it can't happen.... it already has, in other professions... places that required employees to do job related tasks on their own time are now paying
them extra to do it... if we fell under standard labor laws, this would be a good job again in fairly short order.