WordNet
n. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled" [syn: strike]
Usage examples of "work stoppage".
They spoke of an interregional soccer match, and of the possibility of work stoppage by the truck dispatchers.
A work stoppage in the near future to accommodate a second Flashforward would result in less lost productivity than would one months or years down the road when all businesses and factories were back to full operation.
With the antics at Primary to preoccupy station security and most of the tourists, nobody was likely to notice the work stoppage.
The work stoppage had seriously disrupted ship departures, and the only craft leaving that might have taken him aboard was an ice prospector headed for the asteroids.
Otherwise, if there was weakened acceleration in space or a work stoppage, more water would return to the planet, due to friction with the upper gases of the atmosphere, than was thrown into space at the same time by the launchers.
You've got to get out of here before there's ,a complete work stoppage.