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Working women met in the Boys and Girls Club Monday afternoon to discuss health care and the right to unionize — issues at least one of the speakers contended are inextricably linked.

“You can’t separate health care from the labor movement,” said Candis Collins, the state director for Health Care for America Now, as she addressed about 20 women gathered for lunch at the event. They were congregating at the club’s Southeast Unit, on 1401 E. Center St., to discuss health care and the Employee Free Choice Act, a measure currently under consideration in the U. S. Congress ...