We are the Borg. Resistance it futile.

For if part-timers can do our job, what keeps the administration from letting part-timers teach any of the classes that guarantee we have a job as IES (sic) teachers? This question may not have addressed a relevant point in previous years, but today, we must not understand ourselves as individually hired teachers anymore. Instead, if we think about ourselves as an entity, it should become apparent that hiring a part-timer to take over some of ‘our’ classes, no matter how experienced or qualified this part-timer may be, could potentially weaken our position as a unit, and the ‘value’ we represent to the university.