{"id":37041,"date":"2025-01-10T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37041"},"modified":"2025-01-10T02:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:22:26","slug":"park-city-mountain-ski-patrol-strike-ends-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37041","title":{"rendered":"Park City Mountain ski patrol strike ends in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Members of the Park City Mountain\u2002<\/a>ski patrol in Utah were back at work Thursday after the resort agreed to raise their pay by $2 an hour, ending a 13-day strike that forced long wait times for ski lifts and frustrated hundreds of customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new contract, which will stay in effect through 2027, gives entry-level ski patrollers and mountain safety employees a starting salary of $23 an hour, according to the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, which represents 200 employees at the country’s largest ski resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experienced members of the ski patrol will earn an additional $4 an hour on average, the union said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tentative agreement addresses both parties\u2019 interests and will end the current strike, the resort and the union said Thursday in a\u2002joint statement<\/a>. “Everyone looks forward to restoring normal resort operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the ski patrol conduct mountain safety operations, such as avalanche mitigation, and respond to medical emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sides negotiated for eight months before the union began its strike on Dec. 27. During the strike, the resort operated at a limited capacity, upsetting hundreds of guests who traveled long distances with their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota resident Peter Nystrom said he spent more than $20,000 to send his family of eight to the resort only to learn about the strike, three-hour ski lift lines and potentially unsafe mountain conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe thought it\u2019d be a fun kind of Christmas gift to go do this kind of once-in-a lifetime ski trip,\u201d Nystrom told NBC News. \u201cThe really frustrating part was just the lack of transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park City said on its website<\/a> that city officials were “pleased that the patrol union strike has ended and are looking forward to welcoming back our patrollers,\u201d adding that more terrain would open quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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