The President of Teamsters Local 830 in the Hatboro Pennsylvania area is facing a March 17th court date after being arrested and having his camera seized at a Borough council meeting. Joe Brock Junior says he was at the meeting on behalf of a Teamsters member being fired by Hatboro. Brock allegedly refused to sit down while seeking answers on the status of the worker and he was arrestedŠ

[Joe Brock,Jr. 1]: "They claimed I would not sit down. They physically removed me. They arrested me, they cuffed me. They wrestled my camera out of my hand. I'm also a member of the press. They took my camera out of my hand and they¹ve yet to return my camera. They printed me, took my mug shot, the whole nine yards."

Brock says he will vigorously defend himself and the Teamsters will defend the worker in an effort to get the worker his job back.

[Brock2]: "For the employee we¹ve got the Pennsylvania labor relations board. We¹ve now got to wait for them to hear his case. We¹re gonna set up some rallies at the council president ­ we¹re going to meet him at church Sunday with some leaflets to explain to his congregation what he¹s doing to working families. We¹ve got our joint councils and the AFL-Cio in this area that are putting out notices. A lot of people are coming to this gentleman¹s aid."

This Sunday Brock says he and other union supporters will leaflet the Borough council president¹s church to show the congregation, in Brock¹s words, how he treats working families. Brock says the worker, Brent Sine, was fired for union activity.

"This is a council that¹s doing this because an employee exercised their free choice to join a union. And they just cannot accept that and they¹re going to do everything in their power to put an end to it."