Workers for Sutter Health are gearing up for a strike, with union officials citing “bad faith bargaining” by the nonprofit health care provider amid what they claim are widespread staffing shortages.

“We don’t want to go on strike, but we feel like we have to,” Nikki Moorer, of Sutter Solano, said in a statement Friday. “We need management to stop bargaining in bad faith and listen to us to fix working conditions and short staffing. Procedures get canceled, and patients are sent home because there aren’t enough staff to properly stock the equipment we need. That’s not care. That’s a crisis.”

SEIU union workers at Oakland, Santa Rosa, Roseville, Berkeley, Lakeport, Vallejo, Antioch, Castro Valley, and San Francisco Sutter Health facilities voted to authorize a strike, though a date has no

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