10 supporters are talking about petitions related to Park City Resort!
PCMR’s patrol is making just barely more than housekeepers & janitors who work in Park City - how is this fair??? Patrollers are tasked with helping to keep us safe on the mountain & are rightfully required to have significantly more training than other workers on the mountain. Avalanche mitigation can be risky business. Why are patrollers not compensated for their skills & the risks they take on the way we compensate workers in other industries? They truly are not asking for much of a raise & yet Vail is stonewalling. Treating workers with respect is so important for workplace morale.
Vail, we see your lack of action & it’s turning the people of our town even further against you.
With a lot of misgivings, I bought my very first Epic Pass, a five-day, PCMR-only version, this season -- back in April. Now I'm looking at a greatly diminished (if not ruined) Jan. 6-10 ski trip thanks to the well-documented greed of Vail Resorts. It appears that this Epic Pass will likely be my last. Pay your patrollers! This is not hard.
My father patrolled for 10+ years and I grew up skiing in Colorado (before Vail’s near monopoly) - with lift tickets $300+ a day this corporation can afford to pay their patrol what it’s worth to keep skiers safe. Skiing elsewhere this winter!
The ski patrol deserves to have fair wages just like everyone else and if not to some extent more than other professions. They work hard at what they do and put themselves in dangerous situations to help protect others on ski slopes. I’m personally know people who do this job and it’s only right they get compensated appropriately for what they do!
I had the pleasure of working with the PC Ski Patrol for 4 years. THE most solid group of talented and dedicated women and men (and dogs!) I’ve ever worked with. These people deserve everything they are asking for. Vail is ruining skiing and ski towns! I stand with PCPSPA!
Without ski patrollers there would be no skiing! Absolute LEAST vail could do is provide competitive wages to encourage patroller retention thereby making us all safe on the slopes❤️
Patrollers are vital to the safety of the people on the mountain, both guests and employees. You’ve already had one life saved on the mountain by your patrollers this year, they more than deserve a fair wage and compensation.
The massive explosion in corporatizing major ski areas is very sad. So many things get bypassed and lost as local and private ownership is consumed.
It seems like employees are becoming hors d’oeuvres for the hungry ghosts of upper management. We all know the importance of a solid ski patrol and the reality that the mountain cannot operate without us, yet these folks don’t seem to value or respect the risk, dedication, importance and value of our services. Ironically, if all the corporate owners disappeared tomorrow, the skiers would still come, patrol would still show up and make the mountain safe for guests and help those in need. Such a backwards approach by Vail.
As a former ski resort employee, I can attest to the fact that far too little care is paid to the needs of ski resort employees. By the nature of where they are working they are forced into situations of economic uncertainty or poor living conditions to name a couple of the significant impacting factors on industry employees. I could write a thesis on the subject, but I’ll abstain from it here. Respond to the needs of your first responders. Happy employees make happy guests.