EDMONTON - The Alberta government is suggesting it may discipline some jail guards who took part in an illegal strike, a move their union says would threaten labour peace. Deputy solicitor general Tim Grant says there's a report that some guards who left their posts at the new Edmonton Remand Centre when the strike began may have put inmates, managers and other guards in danger. "This incident will be investigated and dealt with appropriately," Grant wrote in a statement released Thursday.

Most Egyptian train drivers resumed work on Tuesday after a general strike demanding bonuses and higher wages had ended, Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA) said. "Some 1,100 daily trips covering northern and southern Egypt were suspended due to the drivers' strike that started Sunday, but now most of them are gradually resumed," Nagwa Albert, head of the ERA central administration, told Xinhua, expecting the railway service to completely return to normal by the end of the day. After the strike took place, the ERA decided to raise all workers' salaries by 10 percent besides overti

Ferry service connecting Greece's many islands with the mainland was disrupted on Wednesday, as seamen launched a 24-hour strike protesting against reforms. "No ship has sailed since 6am this morning (0300 GMT)," a spokesperson from the Merchant Marine Ministry told AFP. The Panhellenic Seamens' Union (PNO) organised the strike to oppose a law that will allow a reduction in the number of crew members aboard ships sailing under a Greek flag. The law has been submitted to parliament but has not been voted yet.

A Singapore court on Monday sentenced four Chinese bus drivers to jail terms of up to seven weeks after they pleaded guilty to instigating the city-state's first strike in nearly three decades. Liu Xiangying, 33, Gao Yue Qiang, 32 and Wang Xianjie, 39 -- all former drivers at state-linked Singapore transport firm SMRT -- were each sentenced to six weeks in prison for conspiring to launch a two-day strike last November. He Jun Ling, 32, who faced an additional charge of provoking colleagues to stay away from work through an online posting, was jailed for seven weeks.