Redundancy Situation

Hi,
Myself and almost all staff were e-mailed late morning on Monday and asked to attend a meeting on Tuesday to discuss a possible redundancy situation within the staff workforce.
To cut along story short our Managing director wishes to merge 2 departments. On of which manages Reactive and small repairs, the other which carried out planned repairs to a much greater value. The main reason for the cuts which will also effect other area's of the busness is that the company is not achieving profit.

Each department currently has a Manager and an Assistant. The MD plan is to merge the department and run with 1 one of each above in the newly created dept. The redundancy situation is that the managers and the Assistant's go head to head for scoring.

In previous redundancy situations both department have been kept seperately due to the differing nature of the works. In additon both departments have their own workforce which recruit and releases operatives as necessary and are treated as 2 seperate area's of the business.

Both department are currently busy with work in both area's. Can this plan be actioned in light that the dept's are busy so no specific job is redundant?

If plan does go ahead then the successful 2 are clearly carrying out the unsuccessful 2's work load?

Based on the above would the unsuccessful 2 have a right to go to tribunal?

If the successful 2 feel the new dept job is unachievable then what situation are then in? Are they still eligible to take redundancy pay?

Thanks
GS

You haven't a leg to stand on here - not on anything you have said here at least.