If successful, Loveland would join a growing list of ski areas with unionized patrollers in Colorado’s consolidating resort industry
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Ski patrollers at Breckenridge vote 43-42 to unionize
Ski patrollers at Breckenridge have voted to unionize. By one vote. The 43-42 vote announced this week on the National Labor Relations Board website adds Breckenridge to a growing list of ski areas with unionized patrollers. Patrollers in Crested Butte, Steamboat, Telluride, Utah’s Park City and Washington’s Stevens Pass are part of the United Professional […]
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Ski patroller unions set to grow in Colorado’s consolidating resort industry
The letter to ski patrollers landed a few days before Vail Resorts told investors it was sitting on $1.4 billion in cash. The company was not going to include unionized ski patrollers in the end-of-season bonus program, saying the extra cash — up $1,500 — would violate federal law governing labor contract negotiations with the […]
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Northern Colorado has its own backcountry ski patrollers. And they’re busier than ever.
CAMERON PASS — The wind is swirling snow and shaking the aspens. It’s single-digit cold. “Such a harsh environment,” says Owen Richard, raising his voice in the gusts as he sticks skins to his skis for another lap in knee-deep powder. “And here we are having fun. So, so lucky.” Backcountry skiers on Cameron Pass […]
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“It was like he was an angel”: How a well-prepared ER doctor on skis saved a boy’s life after a mountain crash
SURVIVORS: Part of a Colorado Sun series on close calls in the outdoors and life after a crisis. His buddy was ribbing him about the big backpack he wore skiing every day. “He was saying, ‘Man that’s dumb. When are you ever going to use that thing?’ ” said Dr. Heston LaMar, a North Carolina […]