CUPW and Canada Post are working on releasing election ballots stuck in limbo due to the strike.

The City of St. John’s reached out asking if mail-in ballots could be retrieved from the Kenmount Road facilities, just days before election day.

Both the union and corporation have been at odds for nearly two years, and workers went back on strike last week after new directives from the federal minister would Canada Post to cut some services.

The President of CUPW Local 126, Mike McDonald, says they’re hoping to have ballots out of the mail system sooner rather than later.

“We’re in the same boat now, thinking, how can we make this work, so hopefully that will play itself out throughout the day and we may be able to get some people’s democratic rights and their vote into the municipal elec

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