Dean meets with Group Health workers, visits bookstore

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SEATTLE -- Former Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean told nurses and other healthcare workers Tuesday that the best way to handle their dispute with the Group Health Cooperative is to stick together.

"I don't know the issues inside and out in this particular disagreement, but in general organized labor has stood up for people who couldn't stand up as individuals, but could stand up for themselves together," the former Vermont governor said.

"As a group of people, we are so much stronger than we are one at a time," he said.

Speaking at a restaurant across the street from Group Health Hospital, Dean answered questions from workers upset by a proposed increase in the cost of their health benefits.

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