Hundreds of Berkeley city workers could soon take to the picket lines after members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike.

Union leaders say 93 percent of the 550 members in the union’s Community Services Unit and Part-time Recreation Leaders Association voted to allow its leadership to call a strike if current contract talks with the city remain bogged down.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.