On December 30, 2024, members of the Loveland Professional Ski Patrol Union and the Eldora Professional Ski Patrol Union protested in front of Vail Resort’s headquarters in Bloomfield, Colorado.
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Members of Utah’s Park City Mountain Ski Patrol say the resort has agreed to a $2-an-hour wage increase after 13 days that forced long waits for ski lifts and frustrated hundreds of customers. He ended his strike and returned to work on Thursday.
The new contract, valid through 2027, will give entry-level ski patrollers and mountain safety staff $23 an hour, according to the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, which represents 200 employees at the nation’s largest ski area. The starting salary will be given to the new employee. .
Experienced members of the ski patrol will earn an average of $4 more per hour, the union said.
“The tentative agreement addresses the interests of both parties and ends the current strike. Everyone looks forward to restoring normal resort operations,” the resort and union said in a joint statement Thursday. Ta.
Ski Patrol members perform mountain safety activities such as avalanche mitigation and respond to medical emergencies.
The two sides negotiated for eight months before the union went on strike on December 27th. During the strike, the resort operated at limited capacity, upsetting hundreds of guests who had traveled long distances with their families.
Minnesota resident Peter Nystrom spent more than $20,000 to send his family of eight to a resort only to find out about strikes, three-hour ski lift lines and potentially dangerous mountain conditions. said that it was done.
“I thought it would be a fun Christmas present to go on a once-in-a-lifetime ski trip like this,” Nystrom told NBC News. “What was really frustrating was the lack of transparency.
Park City said on its website that city officials are “pleased that the patrol union strike is over and look forward to the return of our patrol officers” and that more areas will be opened soon. added.