Vail Resorts, ski patrol union deadlocked after latest contract talk
Dec 5, 2024, 5:00 PM
Ski patrollers demonstrate Nov. 23 in Park City after union negotiations with Vail Resort reached a standstill (Collin Leonard, KSL.com)
(Collin Leonard, KSL.com)
PARK CITY, Utah — After another unsuccessful contract negotiation session Wednesday night, Vail Resorts and the Park City Ski Patrol Union will continue their standoff, despite mounting public pressure.
The counteroffer from Vail in the last meeting “includes no improvement to benefits and less than 0.5% wage increase across the unit,” according to a statement sent by the union Wednesday. “Most patrollers would see no difference in their wages and those affected would only see a minimal wage increase.”
Union reps say Vail Resorts canceled a planned contract talk on Monday and hoped “the extra time will allow them to come prepared with a more reasonable counteroffer.”
The contract between both parties expired the last day of April. There have been 21 meetings to form a new contract since then, according to union representatives. Patrollers at Park City Mountain, which opened for the ski season Nov. 22, are operating under tentatively agreed-upon clauses while the rest of the agreement is worked on.
“Every unreasonable counteroffer makes it increasingly difficult to continue working without a contract and draws out a process we wanted to have completed before we started working this season,” Kate Lips, union president and seventh-year patroller at Park City Mountain, said in a prepared statement.
Please read the full article and more from Collin Leonard at KSL.com.
