Telikom workers in Papua New Guinea have walked off the job, meaning that any faulty telecommunications links will not be attended to.
The Post Courier reports the withdrawal of labour by the workers is indefinite.
If members of the sacked board are not reinstated, the stopwork might continue into next week.
The Telecommunication Workers' Union president, Bob Magaru, has warned the stopwork was a signal of bigger things to come if State Enterprises Minister Dr Puka Temu continues to defy requests from the Prime Minister to re-instate the sacked board.
He says the union had received pledges of support from sister unions at PNG Power and PNG Harbours Limited.
However the Registrar of Industrial Relations Helen Saule has advised unions that the withdrawal of labour was illegal because the issue was political and not industrial.
