Members of the Lovelands Professional Ski Patrol Alliance and the Eldora Professional Ski Patrol Alliance protest outside the Vail Resorts headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado, on December 30, 2024.
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member park city hills Utah’s ski patrol returned to work Thursday after the resort agreed to raise wages by $2 an hour, ending a 13-day strike that forced long waits at ski lifts and left hundreds of patrons frustrated. Frustrated.
The Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, which represents 200 employees at the nation’s largest ski resorts, said the new contract would run through 2027 and would start at $23 an hour for entry-level ski patrollers and mountain safety employees.
The union says experienced ski patrol members make an average of an extra $4 an hour.
“The tentative agreement is in the interest of both parties and will end the current strike,” the resort and the union said in a statement on Thursday. joint statement. “Everyone is looking forward to a return to normal resort operations.”
Ski Patrol members perform mountain safety operations, such as avalanche mitigation, and respond to medical emergencies.
The two sides negotiated for eight months, and the union began a strike on December 27.
Minnesota resident Peter Nystrom said he spent more than $20,000 to transport his family of eight to the resort, only to learn about a strike, a three-hour ski lift line and potentially unsafe mountain conditions.
“We thought it would be a fun Christmas gift to do this once-in-a-lifetime ski trip,” Nystrom told NBC News. “What’s really frustrating is the lack of transparency.
park city says its website City officials ‘pleased the patrol union strike has ended and look forward to our return’
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