The reason the 30 at MAN are being targeted is because as of 5th Sep 2002 the BA management tore up the redeployment agreement.
The 30 at MAN are the first of many unless something is done about it.
The redeployment agreement affects ALL British Airways staff.
The idiotic thing about all this is that if they had stuck with the original agreement back in 2001 then we would not be in this position now.
It was good enough for the flight engineers last year why not for the rest?
Furthermore, on Thursday and Friday(13th) this week the BA management suddenly started to make available other jobs within BA at MAN, however the affected staff still have to make a decision on whether or not to leave the company or move to LHR by 1700hrs on Monday16th September!!!
Sounds a bit unreasonable to me.