Cosatu backs NUM legal challenge over Eskom restructuring [SOUND]

# Union federation Cosatu says it fully supports the National Union of Mineworkers’ legal challenge against the Eskom restructuring task team’s phase one report. The federation is opposing any move towards privatisation of the electricity grid and is demanding guarantees that the utility workers will not lose their jobs or bargaining rights. Cosatu’s Zanele Sabela says the government must first deal with Eskom’s financial problems, including more than 120-billion-rand owed by municipalities: