Bonez, due to the increased procedural(non-radar) separation of aircraft in E airspace, that only recieve DTI at the moment, the concensus of controllers is that there won't be job losses for controllers, in fact there may be more of us. So to say the ATC Union is against airspace reform because they are trying to protect our jobs is a crock. The reason they are against it is because they realise the proposals are flawed and when there is that midair IFR-VFR collision one of its members is going to be hauled over the coals. A scenario of E airspace that scares me is that you give an IFR a clearance to leave and no IFR or radar observed VFR traffic. Unknown to you while you were busily separating a couple of guys on the other side of you airspace, a radar VFR paint popped up for one paint then dropped off (as happens constantly on the edge of radar coverage).
When the IFR coming out of cloud slams into the unknown VFR shooting along just under the cloud, and the investigator plays the tapes, and sees the one VFR radar paint, do you think the controller will be held accountable. Most certainly.