The short answer is that we had no standing to fight the layoffs. What the College did wasn't right, but it was legal. Here's the longer answer: The current contract does not contain layoff protection for staff who work less than 0.5 FTE. The contract was bargained for in 2016 (long before any of us were part of Union leadership or bargaining, and before some of us even worked at LCC). I do not know the circumstances around the bargaining of that contract, but I do know that we have not had the opportunity to change any of it during our time as officers because contract bargaining happens only during certain years and has not yet reopened.