# Solidarity backs applications by Glencore-Merafe and Samancor for a special electricity tariff of 62 cents per kilowatt-hour. The union’s Pieter Jordaan warns that thousands of jobs are at risk if relief is not granted, with electricity accounting for up to 60-percent of smelting production costs. He says four-thousand direct jobs and more than 35-thousand others linked to communities and supply chains could be affected if the operations are forced to close:
Solidarity backs tariff relief for ferrochrome industry [SOUND]
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