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It's interesting that. I taught a sessional course a little further west (University of Saskatchewan) and sessionals there are unionized, whether you want to or not. One of the perks of this is that after you've taught the same course 3 times, you have right-of-first-refusal; i.e. if that course opens up to be taught by a sessional, the department offer it to you before they open it up to a general competition.

Apparently that's not the case at Carleton.

Relevant: looks like they will strike http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/02/12/u-of...

One big problem is that the union that represents contract faculty also represents graduate students and for the most part isn't taken seriously by the general public. For example, I saw an ad from the union at York University calling for the same domestic and international tuition rates. It's like they have no clue how government funding works.