This is not a threat, it is now in writing, all the Manchester gardeners have been given three options in writing:-
1 Take a job at LHR on a lousy outdated redployment agreement.
2 Take the voluntry redunacy that was offered, three weeks for every year upto a max of 19 weeks.
3 Or on the 15th Sep you WILL be made Compulsary redundant using goverment statutary minimum figures.
And this final figute is less than £1000 for some people.
The Engineering ENF has called for a ballot for industrial action if the company enforce this.
The good news is that BA under new JAR rules will NOT be able to re-issue approvels to manergment as they did during the last strike at LHR because anybody certifying an aircraft must prove that he has worked an aircraft for 6 months in the last 2 years.
