ITALY: Trade unions, Telecom workers: "5G is a business for companies but a danger to the health of citizens" - Oasi Sana, 20th March 2019 (auto-translation)
The Unitary Basic Telecom Confederation (CUB), the most important basic trade union operating in our country, makes the big voice inside the mobile telephony giant, together with the United Metalworkers Federation: they released an alarming press release on the dark side of the 5G, denouncing the socio-health danger of fifth-generation wireless in the large business of companies, inclined - according to the workers - solely to private profit and not to the protection of public health. OASI SANA reports the workers' note in full.
Here we go again, the 5G race has deployed the interests of the world's leading TLC companies with Huawei's and Zte's Chinese companies on one side and AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon on the other.
In Italy the emphasis on this new technology is also marked by this government that will sell twice as much as expected from the sale of frequencies: around 6.55 billion euros! !
No one seems to seriously consider the problem produced by electromagnetic pollution and its effects on human health.
The 5G technology is especially effective at a short distance and is transmitted poorly through solid materials, promises ever-increasing data rates and many more devices, so it will require higher powers and a greater number of transmitting stations, massively increasing the population's exposure to electromagnetic waves; suffice it to say that the increase in radio power in ten years (2004-2014, so before the LTE boom) has quadrupled! (source ARPAV).
As usual, the appeal of 180 scientists from around the world for a 5G moratorium fell on deaf ears, given the harmful effects already demonstrated with the exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (CEMRF) of the old 2G technologies (for which we 15 years of studies are required!).
On the contrary, in Italy it seems that the 5G gold rush has infected everyone , even those unsuspecting citizens who will act as CAVIA in the cities identified for experimentation such as MATERA, MILAN, TORINO, BARI, L'AQUILA and PRATO .
This government still does not seem to take a clear position on the matter, caution would advise adopting the Precautionary Principle with the adoption of actions to avoid unacceptable damage, even if scientifically plausible but uncertain. On the other hand the entire economic world pushes for not slowing down this development, useful for a general technological change (the Internet of things promised with 5G will allow to talk with the most disparate devices, from the light bulb to the self-driving car) with prospects of huge turnover.
But this should not be done by ignoring health!
As a trade union we are not only concerned about the health aspect, which will affect even more the TLC workers for whom the limits set for the population (we are the first guinea pigs!) Are not worth, but also employment, given the huge quantity of investments required of TLC companies. The current situation in our country would instead advise the use of economic resources to develop the fiber optic network more widely, so as to guarantee all citizens both high-speed connectivity (the internet of things is not only done with the mobile network!), and greater protection of health and jobs. The 5G, in the face of a series of investigations-studies on the health impacts that however have to start immediately, financed by all the companies, should start more gradually.
To protect both health and investments, these objectives can be achieved especially with state interventions:
Lowering EMF limits (at least 50% for new plants) (consider that Vodafone has already asked for further increases, in the face of public health !) facilitating the implementation of new facilities on public facilities at reduced subsidized costs and at the same time pushing for the sharing of the networks between the managers and building a serious network of "public" monitoring of the population's exposure levels.
These must be the main demands to be made now to the government, not the establishment of sectoral solidarity funds financed by workers, as companies and unions are asking in unison, in spite of the workers - who are already paying in terms of health and employment - and to public health !!
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