“City of Un-brotherly Love”


After well over a decade MTV’s reality show the Real World has selected Philly to be the city to stick a new group of strangers in order to see what happens. The new season was slated to start shooting in a few weeks.

However things went awry when non-union workers who work for a construction company out in Bucks County got the contract. When union workers got wind of what was going on they began protesting and vocally voicing their opinions to the workers that MTV had hired.

Now MTV never ran into this problem before because every city they aired The Real World in before wasn’t as pro-union or should I say anti-non union as Philly. Heck hope over the Walt Whitman Bridge to South Jersey and isn’t mandatory to carry a union card if you want to slap to bricks together for a wage. In fact many of the union members that work in Philly that charge through the nose for their electricians and workers live in nice home in the Garden State made by non-union workers.

Unions try to make sure that their workers are paid well, treated well and get as much work as they want. That’s cool that they make sure they don’t get screwed. However the company owner of the Bucks county company claims his employees get benefits and are paid even better than union workers. So what’s the big deal? I guess some of the blame has to be on MTV that didn’t bother to research that long love affair and political favors that are a part of Philly as much as Soft Pretzels. In fact if they hired “set designers” it wouldn’t be as a big a deal.

Things boiled over that the producers of the show feared having angry union thugs shouting at their 20-something whiners would pretty much break the mood of the show. So they decided to blow town before the 7 strangers ended up in the bottom of the Delware.

Now John Street did call up to try to beg them to come back after he realized how he lost on a free chance to advertise Philly as a cool place to come. It looks like is a bit too late. Instead of showing the country that Philly is a hip place everyone that read this national story the impression its ran by a bunch of thugs.