HEALTH workers will demonstrate outside Southport and Ormskirk hospitals in response to its latest round of job cuts.
Amicus and other unions will mount two protests next week after the NHS trust revealed it will sack more than 80 staff in coming months.
The trust has indicated more than 200 jobs will go at the debt-ridden hospitals in two years, according to Amicus.
But the union says hospital officials have failed to state what savings will be made by the redundancies, or give assurances that patient care will be unaffected.
Amicus official Debbie Brannan last night urged the trust to look at other options.
She said: "The protests are the beginning of our campaign to try and reverse these decisions. Our message to the trust is clear - we won't stand for these job cuts.
"Our members and patients shouldn't be left in the dark about such vital decisions which unions say will have a devastating blow on staff and patients in both hospitals.
"Amicus has expressed its concern to the Department of Health about these decisions and lack of meaningful consultation. We are calling on the trust to work in partnership with Amicus to secure members' jobs and patient care."
Amicus members will gather at the gates of Southport hospital on Monday and at Ormskirk next Friday, between noon and 2pm.
Last week, the Daily Post revealed 33 workers will be sacked in the first phase of a compulsory redundancy scheme.
And managers confirmed a further 50 posts will be marked for compulsory redundancy in coming months to help drag the hospitals out of a £15m deficit.
It comes after the NHS trust slammed on a vacancy freeze and encouraged staff to take voluntary redundancies in a bid to slash 200 posts.
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