UCD staff and students will come together on Valentine's Day to call on the college to "reciprocate the love".
They will stage a protest to ask the university's management to take action on "sky high rents in on-campus student accommodation" and the "protection of vital student support services".
They also have voiced concern over "the ongoing exploitation of postgraduate workers" and the "prevailing of corporate interests over staff and students".
Trade unions representing UCD employees include SIPTU, IFUT and UNITE and they will take part in next Monday's protest.
Miriam Hamilton, Deputy General Secretary of IFUT said that difficulties UCD employees face is not good for "driving research and innovation".
She said: “IFUT supports the UCD Students’ Union protest which will take place on 14 February 2022.
"Precarious, casual, hourly paid and low paid employment feature in all Universities and UCD is no exception. The impact on the individual can be devastating including financial stresses, insecurity and mental health impacts.
"The impact on the University teaching and research can too be negative as a conveyor belt of precarious staff on short contracts concerned about their future is not conducive to driving research and innovation.
"IFUT condemns all employment practices which exploit precarious and casual workers and believe the UCDSU protest is a welcome focus on these important issues."
UCDSU President Ruairi Power called on UCD to address concerns that have been raised "over the last number of years".
He said:: “As campus life hopefully starts to move beyond the pandemic, this is a chance to set a vision for the kind of relationship we want to have with UCD now and for the students of the future.
"We will be calling upon management to reciprocate the love that students and staff feel for their university, by setting out plans to address concerns that have consistently been raised over the last number of years.”
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