By Leslie Ann Aquino The Associated Labor Unions (ALU) said government and business owners should provide shuttle or transportation to workers when they return to their jobs as areas transition from an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to either a modified ECQ (MECQ) or a general community quarantine (GCQ). (MANILA BULLETIN) Alan Tanjusay, spokesperson of ALU, said workers should be provided with means of transportation as the lockdown has left them penniless. “Workers in industries allowed to starting tomorrow should be provided the means of transportation by the government and employers from home to workplaces,"he said in a statement. “Remember these workers have no income and no means of livelihood because they were lockdown for more than two months,” added Tanjusay. “Therefore it must be the obligation of government and business owners to provide shuttle or transportation as workers help in rebuilding our economy,” he said. Tanjusay said the move will also prevent a second wave of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) cases. “On March 15, start of lockdown, workers were trapped and gathered en masse at checkpoints and converged in jeepney, bus, and train terminals, which possibly triggered a wave of COVID 19 transmission as millions of workers went back to their homes in Metro Manila and in the provinces for the lockdown,” he said. “If these problems on the lack of means of transportation persists beginning tomorrow, then we are creating a second wave of coronavirus disease transmissions among workers, their co-workers, their families, and their communities," added Tanjusay. Beginning Saturday, May 16, several industries can already resume operations, particularly in Metro Manila, which will transition to a MECQ.