‘World’ pulls up its Philly stake

Real-world labor issues apparently were too much for the producers of a popular MTV reality show.

Bunim/Murray Productions says it has given up plans to tape the 15th season of “The Real World” in Philadelphia. Taping had been set to begin in three weeks.

The production company had angered labor unions by hiring a nonunion company to renovate the former Seamen’s Church Institute in Old City, where it planned to have seven strangers live together and have their lives videotaped. Members of the building trades unions picketed outside the building.