While other Chicago-area universities have faculty unions, the University of Chicago is the first local election spurred by SEIU's Faculty Forward campaign, which in the last three years has helped form 30 unions of nontenured faculty across the U.S., including at Tufts and Georgetown universities, according to the SEIU. Nontenured faculty members at Loyola University Chicago have filed a petition to form a union, and are working with Local 73.