On the morning of August 1, 2024, some netizens said that Shanxi Taiyuan West Bus Passenger Station was suspended because the bus station employees were owed wages. On August 2, the reporter learned that the station has resumed operation after the repayment of employees' wages.
On August 1, Taiyuan West Bus Station was suspended.
(Screenshot of the video posted by netizens)
An old station in Taiyuan suddenly stopped operating
On the morning of August 1, some netizens went to Taiyuan West Bus Station to prepare to take the bus, but found that the passenger station stopped selling tickets. When the staff were inquired, they learned that the employees had stopped working en masse because of the arrears of wages at the passenger terminal.
Previously, from July 30 to July 31, 2023, the station was also suspended due to the impact of Typhoon Doksuri.
Taiyuan West Bus Station (Xinxi Railway Station) is located at the west end of Yingzexi Street in Taiyuan City, covering an area of 74 acres, and has been put into operation since December 21, 2010, and has been in operation for 14 years. It is equivalent to 2.5 times the size of the old West Passenger Station, which can be called the largest bus station in North China.
The station is composed of three parts: the main station room, the driver's apartment, and the office room, with an investment of 120 million yuan. The facilities in the station are relatively complete, waiting hall, ticket room, mother and baby room, VIP room, information desk, bag consignment office are spacious and bright, and there are also new restaurants, smoking rooms, coffee rooms, telephone rooms, infirmaries, direct drinking water machine rooms and service centers. The ticket hall covers an area of 1,562.7 square meters, the waiting hall covers an area of 3,016.9 square meters, and the parking lot can accommodate more than 4,000 buses, and the number of passengers has reached 10,000 at peak times.
In terms of barrier-free facilities, elevators, escalators and entrances have barrier-free ramps, elevators have 0.8-meter handrails, and there are floor selection buttons with Braille on the side, and the elevators have clear displays and floor announcements when they run up and down and arrive. There is a blind passage in the station hall, and there are barrier-free toilets on each floor. The ticket hall is equipped with a 0.65-meter-high barrier-free counter, and the waiting hall is equipped with wheelchair seats.
In recent years, with the increasing diversity and convenience of various means of transportation, the passenger flow of the West Railway Station has been decreasing.
On August 2, the reporter called the station's customer service number, and the operator confirmed that the station had indeed stopped operating for one day the day before because of the inability to pay wages, and now part of the wages have been paid, and the station has returned to normal. Talking about the salary, the operator sighed and said: "I have been in arrears for a long time, and now I am paying half of my salary." ”
Department response: Employees have returned to work after retroactive wages
Has the matter been properly handled? Subsequently, the reporter contacted the Taiyuan Municipal Transportation Bureau. According to the staff, it is understood that Taiyuan West Automobile Passenger Station has resumed operation, and the transportation department is also actively following up and dealing with other relevant departments.
The staff member also said that as the competent department of the industry, the bureau has actively coordinated with the relevant departments to deal with the matter, and at present, part of the wages have been coordinated, and all employees have returned to work and carried out their work normally. Next, we will draw inferences from one another, learn lessons, actively perform the regulatory responsibilities of the competent departments of the industry, and work together with other relevant departments to form a joint force.
According to the station staff, the monthly salary should be paid around the 20th, but this month dragged on for more than ten days, and the employees had no choice but to take the method of suspending the operation, resulting in the suspension of many shuttle buses from August 1 to 2. After the payment of wages on August 2, bus operations returned to normal.
According to the station staff, the arrears of wages this time are long, and the current salary is half paid. The staff of the Taiyuan Municipal Transportation Bureau said that part of the wages had been coordinated, and all the employees had returned to work normally. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Taiyuan City has also received the relevant information and transferred it to the relevant departments for processing.
The suspension of wages may involve a variety of factors, such as the company's operating conditions, capital management and other issues. It is clear that in recent years, with the rapid development of high-speed rail construction, people travel the first choice of fast and convenient high-speed rail EMUs, and there is no high-speed rail along the line, so they will choose to take passenger cars.
In response to the issue of salary payment of station employees, the reporter contacted the Taiyuan State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the staff said that the information had been received and transferred to the relevant departments and was being processed.
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