This has been going on for far too long and over-use of precarious workers and contract-labour has to end, not only in our colleges, but across Canada. People simply cannot plan for the future and raise families when they have to live in fear every 3 months that their contract may not be renewed. Virtually all of these contract faculty workers have advanced degrees (myself included, I'm nearly finished a Ph.D). Attaining this level of education is very costly, and most colleges require a masters at a minimum to teach, but they offer short term contracts with no benefits that come nowhere near to compensating employees for the level of education they have achieved. Well, push has come to shove and it's high time the colleges hire teachers full time and offer fair and reasonable compensation.