Council services across Northern Ireland and some schools face up to two weeks of disruption from Monday due to strike action by the Unite union.
Members of Unite the Union in most local council areas along with the Housing Executive are staging the walk-out in a dispute over pay.
Strike action by union members in the Education Authority (EA) will begin from Tuesday.
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Council services likely to be affected include some bin collections, street cleaning and the operation of some venues.
Belfast City Council has confirmed that the City Hall, Belfast Zoo along with several community centres, play centres, sports pitches, bowling greens, parks and public toilets could be closed on some of the strike days.
All burial, cremation and death registration services will continue to operate as normal.
Ards and North Down Council said strike action there is proposed to run from Tuesday 3 to May 15 (in other council areas action is starting from Monday 25 April).
A spokesperson said: "In anticipation of disruption to kerbside collections, households are encouraged to make maximum use of the kerbside collection service during this week.
"Please put the appropriate bins out for collection on your collection day, even if they are only partially full, to ensure you have the maximum capacity available to you over the strike period."
Derry City and Strabane District Council said it also expects "disruption to a range of services such as refuse collection, street cleansing, recycling centres, leisure facilities and a number of other services".
It added that "the level of impact will be variable across all services".
Elsewhere, the Housing Executive has said some of its scheduled repair services for tenants in Craigavon, Coleraine and north and west Belfast are likely to be affected until 8 May.
Unite has said that the decision to take strike action has been made due to the "failure of employers to provide an improved pay offer to workers."
It has said workers have been offered a 1.75% pay increase and that the current rate of inflation impacting employees living standards is 9%.
Unite's Northern Ireland Officer Gareth Scott said employers were to blame for the resumption of strike action.
"These employers need to address the pay expectations of their workforce. Their failure to do so to date has led to this escalation and the unnecessary disruption that will inevitably result," he said.
Meanwhile, some EA yellow bus services, which take pupils to school, will not operate for two weeks from Tuesday.
School bus services operated by Translink will run as normal following the postponement of a possible strike by bus drivers from Monday.
A number of special schools also face disruption as some non-teaching staff, including classroom assistants, will be on strike.
The EA said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action but the union refused.
Full timetable for strike action:
- 25 April-1 May and 3 May-8 May: Unite members in the NI Housing Executive; nine councils (Antrim and Newtownabbey; Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon; Causeway Coast & Glens; Mid & East Antrim; Belfast City; Derry City & Strabane; Fermanagh & Omagh; Lisburn & Castlereagh; and Mid-Ulster); and three further education colleges (North West Regional College; Belfast Metropolitan College; South Eastern Regional College)
- 26 April-1 May and 3 May-8 May: Unite members at the Education Authority
- 3 May-15 May: Unite members at Ards & North Down Borough Council
- 6 May: Unite members at Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
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