To the Editor:

In an effort to save money the city and the school department have intensified talks to combine services. Cheryl Nickerson, president of Warwick Independent School Employees (WISE) union wants to be on that committee to investigate whether savings can be achieved by merging the city public works department and the school department’s maintenance department.

Does anyone think any president of any union would put the taxpayers first ahead of their union workers? I think not.

When you combine services, jobs will be lost, this I wish could be different, but times are extremely difficult and the many outweigh the few. Time is not for talk; time is for doing. This committee must act now; the taxpayers of Warwick have taken it on the chin long enough.

Ray R. Hogarth

Warwick