Yep - a good account macc2.
One of my colleagues attended the first meeting and was told nothing of the future plans and there was certainly no mention of the specifics that were heard in the second meeting which I, at the risk of "outing" myself, attended. That surely isn't good enough?
Some people - who asked very directly and bluntly - were told whilst another whole group weren't.
Also, I don't think the groups were as carefully selected as it would seem though they were far too small and yes, the notification of the meetings was poor (a letter on the top desk and an email - who reads their emails???? - wasn't enough I don't think for such a major event). Certainly a few of my colleagues I was there with are well known on the unit as having forthright and perhaps contraversial-to-management views. So if some sort of vetting did take place it didn't work or wasn't at all apparent on my occasion.
Legally I'm not sure we have a leg to stand on sadly. And it does pain me to say so. We're a mobile grade and thusly, as I understand it (thanks to one of those legally minded wives mentioned) where we work is pretty much at the sayso of the powers that be within reason.
Incidentally, most of the ATSAs I have spoken to are banking on the redundancy package and are not going to move units before the proposed move oop north - only those in the training section seem to have been mentioned as moving to MACCNerc by management and I suspect that is subject to change.