American actor Danny Glover and two union leaders were convicted Thursday for trespassing in a Niagara Falls, Ont., hotel during a labour rally in September 2006.

Actor Danny Glover, seen at a labour rally in New York City in November, will be sentenced Feb. 8 for trespassing in a Niagara Falls hotel.
(Stuart Ramson/Associated Press)

Glover, known best for his starring role in the Lethal Weapon movies, was not in the provincial court in Niagara Falls when the guilty verdict was handed down. He will be sentenced on Feb. 8.

Glover, a 61-year-old who has become known as a vocal labour activist, took part in the rally at the Sheraton on the Falls hotel on Sept. 16. He was supporting union leaders who were calling for improved salaries and working conditions for employees at the Sheraton and other hotels across North America.

Unite Here, a union that represents 450,000 hotel workers in North America, said in a press release that relations between unionized hotel workers and management have been strained ever since Canadian Niagara Hotels bought the Sheraton and two other area hotels in 1993.

Unite Here co-director Alex Dagg and Wayne Samuelson, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, were arrested alongside Glover at the rally.

Glover and Dagg both testified in their own defence at the two-day trial in October.

With files from the Canadian Press