# The Congress of South African Trade Unions is urging immediate action by government to reduce the increasingly unaffordable price of electricity to stop a jobs bloodbath. The union federation says that since load-shedding started in 2006, electricity prices have increased by more than 450-percent. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says what the economy cannot afford is to allow the massive financial leakages undermining Eskom’s ability to provide affordable electricity to continue:
Cosatu says government action needed to reduce electricity prices and avoid further job losses [SOUND]
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