An Update from the Telluride Ski Patrol Picket Line - KOTO FM
On a cold, blustery December Saturday, the Telluride Ski Resort was closed as ski patrollers picketed at the bottom of Lift 8 in Oak Street Plaza in Telluride on the first day of the Telluride Ski Patrol Union strike. “We have about 60 of our patrollers here picketing, picketing the ski area,” said Katherin Devlin, vice president of the Telluride Ski Patrol Union and a ski patroller who has worked at Telluride for the past six years. The Ski Patrol Union and Telluride Ski Resort, known as Telski, began contract negotiations in early June. Their contract expired in August. After a series of failed negotiations, the union announced last week it would go on strike. Following that announcement, the Telluride Ski Resort said it would close. “There’s a lot of people in this community that are going to be affected by this. It feels like bullying,” Devlin said. “There’s a lot of people that could still be getting paid today. To just shut it down, it feels like bullying. It feels like someone i