Promotions and Consultations start in the same month? Please help!

Hello,
Hoping someone can give me some advice.
I have this morning been put into a 30 day consultation period with approx 25 other employees. I am an employee within a HR team of 5 people. Both myself and a HR administrator have been put at risk as part of this process. This very same month, the HR director and HR advisor have both been promoted to a VP HR and HR Manager respectively. Salary increases for these 2 promotions were very substantial. The promotions have not been announced to the company at all, and during the announcement of the new organisational structure, the old job titles were reffered to in the Org Charts.

My question surrounds the fairness of my position (and others!) being put at risk, when both my boss (HR Advisor), and the HR director have both been promoted in the same month as I am put at risk? To me this seems bad practice and 'unfair', as the business is currently stating 'cost cutting measures' as a reason for the potential redundancies. It seems to me, I have been put at risk so the company can afford to pay the increases in salary for both my bosses...?

Do I have cause here for a grievance? Or is there any legal standing I could pursue?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,

In Consultation

It might seem "unfair" - it isn't unfair. Redundancy isn't about whether a company can afford to tp pay you, or whether they give someone else a big pay rise. Save your effort trying this line of argument - what your bosses get paid has no legal bearing on whether you are made redundant or not, and a grievance to that effect will not be designed to improve your security at work - telling the bosses that their pay rise has cost your job isn't exactly going to go down well even if there is some truth in it.