THE state government is ignoring the western suburbs while constantly pandering to voters in the east, according to Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews.

In an interview with the Weekly, Mr Andrews delivered a scathing attack on the government's response to western suburbs issues like health, infrastructure and the protection and creation of jobs.

"This government's done nothing for the western suburbs of Melbourne and I don't think any western suburbs family is holding their breath waiting for Ted Baillieu to firstly discover the west, let alone start supporting it."

Mr Andrews said the government had no plan for dealing with the loss of 350 jobs at Toyota's Altona plant and other jobs under threat throughout the manufacturing sector.

Victoria lost 15,000 full-time jobs last month while the rest of Australia created 27,000.

The opposition is demanding a jobs plan to tackle the steep slide.

"I've been at Mr Baillieu to deliver a jobs plan for 14 months. He's overseas next week. The trouble is, thousands of Victorian jobs are off overseas with him.

"Yes, there are international issues, but rather than an excuse for inaction they should be a call to action."

Responding to reports that large numbers of nurses and midwives at Sunshine and Western hospitals are on the verge of resigning, Mr Andrews said Labor was committed to retaining nurse-to-patient ratios.

"Nurses will fight long and hard. Not for more pay; this is on behalf of patients. They are fighting for quality care and health outcomes, but Mr Baillieu is hell-bent on destroying the ratios," he said.

A government spokeswoman denied the west was being neglected, arguing it was delivering on its election commitments.

"These commitments will deliver for all communities across Victoria and include specific commitments for the western suburbs that Labor neglected for 11 years," she said.

"For example, the Coalition government has committed to a major grade separation of the Main Road level crossing as one of its 12 priority projects, as part of the biggest effort by any government to remove level crossings in Victoria's history."

The spokeswoman said the government helped two level crossing removals at Anderson Road, Sunshine, to be put back into the Regional Rail Link project.

"The Premier and ministers of the Coalition government are working with the community and regularly making announcements that deliver the funding and community improvements for the western suburbs that Labor spent 11 years talking about and failed to fix."