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A large number of UNITE HERE union members picketed yesterday outside Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, protesting the racial disparity in pay and opportunity for ballpark workers under the employment of Aramark. The union charges that the lowest-paying jobs, such as dishwashers and concourse concession workers, at the ballpark are held predominately by African Americans, while workers in the ballpark's luxury suite, who can earn nearly four times more, are almost all white. Also at issue are Aramark's policy of not allowing part-time workers at Citizens Bank Park to supplement their hours by working at Lincoln Financial Field or the Wells Fargo Center, both of which are also catered by Aramark.