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TORONTO — The union representing Toronto’s outside workers has reached a tentative deal with the city, avoiding a work stoppage.

CUPE Local 416, which represents some 5,400 outside workers, announced the tentative agreement on Friday, hours after negotiations continued past a midnight strike-lockout deadline.

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Talks still continue for more than 20,000 inside workers under the CUPE Local 79 banner ahead of their strike-lockout deadline of early Saturday.

The outside workers include snowplow operators, paramedics, garbage collectors and parks staff, although paramedic services would not have been impacted by a work stoppage.

The inside workers include people employed at childcare centres and social service employees.

Both unions have been without a contract since the end of 2015.

Toronto police, fire services, long-term care homes, as well as Toronto Community Housing properties and the Toronto Transit Commission, are not affected by any labour disruption.