Photo: PCPSPA // Willie Maahs
The months-long dispute between the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association and Park City Mountain Resort appears to be over. A joint statement from the two groups was shared Tuesday evening announcing a tentative agreement that should last through 2027. Details of the deal haven’t been revealed, however.
“Park City Mountain and the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association (PCPSPA) are pleased to announce that they have reached a new tentative agreement through April 2027,” reads a post on the PCPSPA’s Instagram. “The union’s bargaining committee is unanimously endorsing ratification by its unit with a vote scheduled to take place on January 8th. The tentative agreement addresses both parties’ interests and will end the current strike. Everyone looks forward to restoring normal resort operations and moving forward together as one team. Until contract ratification, neither party will be accepting media requests.”
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Negotiations began in early 2024 but didn’t impact operations at Park City Mountain Resort until a strike began in late December. To keep lifts operating in the interim, Vail Resorts reportedly called on ski patrol personnel from other mountains. That move was criticized by union officials who sent a letter to Vail and Park City executives claiming they had been “pressuring, coercing, and intimidating” workers from other mountains to cross picket lines. For its part, Vail Resort officials said that using ski patrol from other resorts in the company had no impact on those mountains. The negotiations have seen plenty of back and forth that has often been played out publicly.
News of the agreement came a day after Summit County’s The Park Record published a letter from Park City Mountain COO Deirdra Walsh. In the letter, Walsh shared that working Park City Staff had been enduring “relentless harassment online and in person” as a result of the strike. According to POWDER, for example, a social media account had named one of those employees from out of state who had answered the call and crossed the picket line to support Park City Mountain operations.
Details of the deal had not been made available to the public as of Wednesday afternoon.
