Unite representative Ameera Sheikh, an intensive care nurse, said Government support shown earlier in the pandemic now felt "fake".
She said: "We have treated people from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds to quite literally the leader of the country [Boris Johnson]. We have sacrificed so much and that includes moving out of our family homes to live close to the hospital and in isolation.
"We are facing an increasingly dangerous workload in intensive care."
And few were impressed with claims that they had received a 12 percent pay rise over the last three years and their average salary was around £34,000.
Nurse Kelly Robbins, who works in Brighton, said: "We listen to them on TV and they are lying. It's just painful and really debilitating to hear them say that.