Park Metropolis, Utah — Final evening, The Park Metropolis Skilled Ski Patrol Affiliation (PCPSPA) had its twenty first spherical of negotiations with Vail Resorts. It didn’t go nicely. The PCPSPA stated that Vail Resorts continues to be not reaching their calls for, which embody “elevating the beginning wage from $21 to $23 per hour, bettering advantages and academic alternatives, and sustaining wage parity with non-unionized Vail Resorts staff.”
We reached out to Vail Resorts for remark. We haven’t acquired an official assertion from them but, however will replace this submit in the event that they reply. Deidre Walsh, who’s the VP and COO of Park Metropolis Mountain Resort, beforehand issued the next assertion on November twenty third to the Park Document relating to negotiations with PCPSPA:
“We’re pleased with our firm’s continued investments in ski patrol pay and advantages that acknowledge their specialised abilities and the wants of particular person resorts. Over the previous three years, the common wage for ski patrollers throughout the corporate, together with at Park Metropolis Mountain, has elevated considerably — far outpacing the speed of wage inflation — leading to very aggressive wages.”
For extra details about the newest negotiations, try the press launch by The Park Metropolis Skilled Ski Patrol Affiliation under.
Park Metropolis Skilled Ski Patrol Affiliation Requires Honest Contract Amid Negotiations with Vail Resorts
PARK CITY, UT — December 5, 2024 — The Park Metropolis Skilled Ski Patrol Affiliation (PCPSPA) is, as soon as once more, disenchanted with the newest counter supply offered throughout ongoing contract negotiations with Vail Resorts. Final evening marked the twenty first bargaining assembly between PCPSPA and Vail Resorts since Might. This counteroffer consists of no enchancment to advantages and fewer than 0.5% wage improve throughout the unit. Most patrollers would see no distinction of their wages and people affected would solely see a minimal wage improve.
PCPSPA has proposed a contract geared toward decompressing pay scales for tenured patrollers with invaluable data and abilities, elevating the beginning wage from $21 to $23 per hour, bettering advantages and academic alternatives, and sustaining wage parity with non-unionized Vail Resorts staff. The union emphasizes that these objectives are very affordable and replicate the worth of ski patrollers’ work and handle the excessive value of dwelling in and round Park Metropolis. This wage construction was proposed with the aim of a extra environment friendly and productive spherical of negotiations, but the corporate has proven they aren’t keen to satisfy the unit with an affordable counteroffer.
Seth Dromgoole, who’s in his seventeenth yr patrolling at Park Metropolis Mountain and PCPSPA Lead Negotiator stated “We’re bargaining for a contract that enables our members to return yr after yr and enhance the companies this patrol supplies to our visitors – that is good for each our coworkers and the Firm. Our wage and profit proposal is rooted in financial knowledge and market comparisons of different ski patrols. Vail’s refusal to return to the desk and make significant work in direction of an settlement is taking a toll on our membership.”
PCPSPA stresses that its negotiators are patrollers elected by the union’s membership who dedicate their private unpaid time to battle for a good contract. At this level, ski patrollers and mountain security staff have been working with out a contract since preseason coaching began in early October.
“We need to safe a contract that displays the worth that patrollers and mountain security deliver to this mountain. Each unreasonable counter supply makes it more and more troublesome to proceed working with out a contract and attracts out a course of we wished to have accomplished earlier than we began working this season,” stated Kate Lips, PCPSPA President and seventh yr patroller at Park Metropolis Mountain.
This Saturday, December seventh, PCPSPA will maintain one other public picket on the intersection of Canyons Village Street and SR224 and the intersection of Park Avenue and Deer Valley Drive in Park Metropolis, UT from 9 am to 1 pm. They request the neighborhood be a part of the demonstration to indicate their help for Park Metropolis Ski Patrol. Media shops are additionally inspired to hitch. PCPSPA will proceed to advocate for its members and hold the neighborhood up to date as negotiations proceed.. For many who are unable to make the picket, they’ll signal the petition under to indicate Vail Resorts that PCPSPA deserves a good contract.
Signal the petition right here.
Signal as much as be a part of the picket right here
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The Park Metropolis Skilled Ski Patrol Affiliation is a part of CWA Native 7781, The United Skilled Ski Patrols of America. Via Native 7781, The Communications Staff of America symbolize Ski Patrollers at Park Metropolis, Utah; Solitude, Utah; Crested Butte, Colorado; Steamboat, Colorado; Telluride, Colorado; Keystone, Colorado; Whitefish, Montana; Stevens Move, Washington; and Raise Upkeep departments at Park Metropolis, Utah and Crested Butte, Colorado. The CWA is dedicated to bettering the working circumstances of Ski Patrollers and different mountain staff – who statistically have one of the vital harmful jobs in america and Canada – and throughout the ski business normally.
Picture Credit: Park Metropolis Profesional Ski Patrol Affiliation
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