Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah went on strike on December 27, 2022, demanding higher wages to keep up with high living costs.
Lines and lifts are shut down due to a strike by the Park City Ski Patrol, in Park City, Utah, on Jan 7.Ski patrollers miffed by wages they say are too low for high living costs have put a wrench in operations at the biggest U.S. ski resort with a rare strike that began over the busy holidays and carried on into the new year’s fresh powder.
The resulting thin staffing at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range, has left many runs closed and caused long lines for ski lifts. Yet some skiers who paid good money for passes are sympathetic. “Pay your employees!” they chant from lift lines in videos posted on social media. Unionization is rare but increasing at U.S. ski resorts, including the one in Park City that is owned by Vail Resorts, which with 42 properties on three continents calls itself the world’s largest mountain resort operator. As talks stalled, 200 patrollers went on strike on Dec. 27, alleging unfair bargaining by the company.They maintain safety at ski resorts by monitoring terrain, responding to accidents, hauling hurt skiers downhill and reducing avalanche risk, sometimes by releasing avalanches with explosives when nobody’s in range.Many in the Rocky Mountain region work as fly-fishing, mountain biking and whitewater rafting guides in the warmer months. Often they’re young people starting in the workforce.The specialized work requires training and dedication – and ought to be compensated without too much stress over living costs in pricey mountain towns such as Park City, the ski patroller union argues. The strike comes as actions by labor unions soared over the past couple of years. Unions secured meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Stri
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