Hospital staff walk of job in Sydney - The Australian

Staff at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital are set to walk out to protest against job cuts. Source: AAP

CLEANERS, security guards, support staff and non-frontline health workers at a major Sydney hospital are walking out for four hours to protest against job cuts.

Plans to axe 300 jobs, on top of earlier cuts, will leave Prince of Wales Hospital with 400 fewer positions, the Health Services Union (HSU) says.

The HSU blames government funding cuts for the job losses, saying management is being "forced to fit into a budgetary straitjacket".

Staff will stop work and rally outside the hospital from 11am (AEST) on Tuesday.

HSU NSW Secretary Gerard Hayes says it is wrong to write the jobs off as not being frontline positions.

"Try telling someone recovering from spinal surgery that their physio is not 'frontline'," he said in a statement.

"Or try arguing that a clean hospital is an optional extra when patients face the threat of staph infection.

"Healthcare is holistic and creating a false distinction between doctors, nurses and everyone else in a hospital is simply a furphy."