If the Phillies win their game against the Giants Thursday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park, it will be a clean sweep for Phils against one of the best teams in the National League.
But even as the Phillies are busy winning (or at least trying), the ballpark's African-American workers are losing out because they tend to work in the lowest-paying jobs, according to the union that represents them.
"It's a huge racial disparity," said Dermot Delude-Dix, a researcher with Unite Here Local 274, the hospitality workers union now in contract talks with Aramark, the Philadelphia-based global catering company with $14.