Park City Ski Patrol Strike

Harvey said:
If the lift tickets were day tickets, I'd say at least refund them.

But I'd bet these were mostly EPIC skiers.
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On average VR's day tickets are 25%. Yeah if you're a local I have no sympathy if you showed up during the strike. Your complaint rings hollow. Common sense would dictate staying home or going elsewhere.

But those thinking vacationers like this guy and his family from Illinois put themselves in the situation, you aren't being realistic. Guests had no warning if you arrived the day of or before the strike you have NO CHOICE. For those showing up after the strike started, pragmatically it's pretty tough to change travel plans in the 11th hour and it's extremely costly. Reservations are not refundable so you are losing your money if you don't show up.

I doubt this strike wasn't a foreseeable event by Vail management. They should have had mitigation plans in place to protect customers. If this was a complete surprise then it only magnifies their incompetence. This isn't even comparable to weather issues or other "variables"-- this was human caused.

Face it-- Corporations always find money to give executive bonuses, money for stock buy backs (which boosts stock price) which further compensates executives. But funny how they don't have money for employees. In fact squeezing employees is often the source of boosting profits. In the process of squeezing employees, this time they screwed customers.

I hope lawsuits stake up like firewood.
 
Campgottagopee said:
Caused by people who took a job at a rate of pay they were aware of then became unhappy about it.
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Vail: Let's consolidate as many destination ski resorts as possible to create enough market power to change the payment model of the entire ski business in order to maximize our corporate share of value created by our management of assets and employees.

Park City ski patrol: Good idea, we'll do something like that too!

Also Vail: Not like that.

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Vail should have at least paid the patrollers what they wanted during the holiday break to stop the strike, and then (right or wrong) picked the fight in January.

Yeah ski resorts can't control nature, I don't blame Whistler for the worst ski trip I ever took because there was no snow, but this wasn't nature, this was greed. I agree with the plaintiffs here.
 
Milo Maltbie said:
Vail: Let's consolidate as many destination ski resorts as possible to create enough market power to change the payment model of the entire ski business in order to maximize our corporate share of value created by our management of assets and employees.

Park City ski patrol: Good idea, we'll do something like that too!

Also Vail: Not like that.

mm
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^That! Vail changed the free market dynamics by owning large portions of it--- in many cases after these people were employed.

Like I said before, I've often been at odds with organized labor, but this is one of those times I support them 100%.
As corps get bigger and more dominant I find myself supporting organized labor more and more when it comes to skilled positions. Sorry Barista's at Starbucks that doesn't include you 🤣

Vail created this mess through corporatization and Disneyfication of skiing. They reap what they sow.
 
Harvey said:
I was wondering why patrol waited until after Christmas to strike, but 12/27 makes total sense for leverage. By the time the customers knew about the strike, they were on their way.

I'm moving this thread to the existing strike thread.
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It's only for subscribers for a few more days but Stuart's podcast on Storm Skiing Journal with the Pres. of the national union that includes the Park City patrol union is very good. Max Magill started as a Canyons patroller ten years ago, just before Vail Resorts bought PC and combined the two patrol units. Max provided a complete timeline for the key dates as negotiations went on from March through mid-December 2024. Also insight to efforts made by VR in the early days before the first combined vote related to having all PC/Canyons patrollers in a union.
 
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