SWA's chief negotiator used to be a SWAPA president, which of course made him a lot of new friends. The company had a legitimate need to have a subject matter expert on their side of the table so if I recall correctly one of the asst chief pilots (who still had a seniority number) was on their side of the table in a legitimate yet somewhat conflicting role.

We also had a handful of pilots who fed the company tidbits from the SWAPA discussion forum, but of course they didn't self-identify and chose to support the company over their fellow pilots from the shadows, which just breeds distrust among the whole group with suspicion inevitably landing on anyone who spends extra time at HQ. Not fair branding all of them with the same label but fair's got nothing to do with it when a handful of pilots seem intent on backing mgt against the pilot group to the extent that everyone gets just a bit scared of the toxic backstabbing going on.