If they staged a five-day stoppage, it could cost the country as much as €1 billion ($1.4 billion), according to the business daily, Il Sole-24 Ore.
"These challenges included a series of extreme weather events including heat waves, a nor'easter and Superstorm Sandy, the most destructive storm in the history of the company's service area, and a monthlong work stoppage," it says.
It had too many bookings, too many stoppages and it never got going.
The football flowed, there were so few stoppages - it was everything the majority of matches at the tournament weren't.
He added, "This union and company that have work stoppages repeatedly, it's sad, but you want to let the process play out".
The coalition has already received permission to strike from its governing labor organizations, meaning it could call for a work stoppage if it chose to do so.
We followed this movement: its fluidity and abruptness, its locations and delineations, its crossings and stoppages, the materials it touches upon, and the boundaries it traces and transgresses.
It would be the third agreement in a row without a work stoppage — evidence, it seemed, that the players and the owners had a common vision and an understanding that both could share in the game's prosperity.
Any stoppage, whether it's governmental or private sector, hampers businesses.
None of those would be officially affected by an N.H.L. work stoppage, but it is unclear whether they would be played if the Winter Classic were canceled.
