Frontline healthcare workers from eight different Sutter Hospitals and Medical Centers across Northern California announced Friday that they have voted to authorize a strike over unfair labor practices. The same caregivers held a series of rolling pickets in August and September at the sites of the possible future strike, including a march and rally at Sutter Health’s Sacramento Medical Center that drew over 1,000 frontline healthcare workers. “We don’t want to go on strike, but we feel like we have to,” said Nikki Moorer of Sutter Solano in the same news release. “We need management to stop bargaining in bad faith and listen to us to fix working conditions and short staffing. The strike votes apply to a variety of job classes, including nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, licensed vocational nurses, environmental services, cooks, technicians, and more.