Jake Randall, a six-year patroller who represents Keystone’s ski patrol union, said it’s “hard to say” if Vail Resorts will consider the impact of the Park City Mountain patroller strike when the company arrives at its Jan. 8 bargaining session with Keystone patrollers. But he and other ski patrollers at company ski resorts in Colorado are watching closely.The Park City patrollers have been working without a contract for several months, so Randall said he suspects that negotiations with a larger group of patrollers at a busier resort may take precedence for the company. Lift mechanics at Vail Resorts-owned Crested Butte Mountain Resort also are negotiating a new contract with the company. Patrollers at Breckenridge and Crested Butte Mountain will negotiate new contracts later this year. “The tone has certainly shifted with all this attention on Park City and hopefully that is reflected in our meeting,” Randall said. “Our last meeting was a month ago and we have not heard anything. We are still negotiating over parking and uniforms. But our unit is getting pretty restless. Everyone is wondering if we will do the same thing as the Park City unit. Our members are pretty fired up and we are ready to walk out if we need to.”The outcome of the negotiations at Park City will play a large role in negotiations that are upcoming or underway at Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte Mountain, said Ryan Dineen, a Breckenridge ski patroller who helped organize ski patrollers there into a union in 2021. See coloradosun.com for full story. Ski patrol strike disrupting holiday week at Park City may set tone for union talks ahead in Colorado The post Ski patrol strike may set tone for union talks in Colorado appeared first on Park Record.