Originally Posted by short circuit
If you know your are on the list, why volunteer to go? There would be no appeal against that.
Sometimes there is an advantage in being first out the door, you beat the rush and may have an opportunity to get an alternate position ahead of everyone else competing for it.
Not always the case but given the scale of redundancies and the area in question it MAY be something wroth considering.
But absolutely definitely consult your Union. There are times Unions overstep their mark, but this isn't one of them. Get your money's worth, they are (or should be given it is their defined role) experts on your side of the field.