Thousands took to the streets of downtown Chicago on Tuesday night calling McDonald’s the “Donald Trump of corporations” and protesting low wages and sexual harassment at the world’s largest fast food chain a day before the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

The protest, coordinated by pressure groups including Fight for $15, a union-backed lobby group calling for a hike in US minimum wage, plan a second day of protests at McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting in Chicago on Wednesday morning.

The marchers, many of them in red ponchos in the driving rain, marched between Trump Tower and the Rock’n’Roll McDonald’s, the company’s flagship restaurant in its hometown.

“McDonald’s just like Donald Trump steals wages from its workers. McDonald’s just like Donald Trump avoids paying taxes. McDonald’s just like Donald Trump supports low wages. McDonald’s just like Donald Trump harasses women,” Fight For $15 national campaign organizer Kendall Fells said.

McDonald’s did not return calls for comment.

Steve Easterbrook, McDonald’s British-born chief executive, will address shareholders on Wednesday about the company’s turnaround plans. Under Easterbrook the company has bounced back from a years-long slump but faces stiff competition as it attempts to grow its business.

Marchers from Dunkin’ Donuts, Wendy’s and other fast food outlets, along with home healthcare workers and employees of Amazon’s warehouses and other companies, marched on Tuesday and will protest at the fast food giant’s headquarters on Wednesday.

Through a series of strikes and protests the Fight for $15 campaign, which aims to raise the Federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15, has been successful in lobbying for states including California and New York to increase wages. But Trump has offered mixed messages about his stance on the minimum wage, saying that the federal minimum wage is too low but also saying there should be no federal minimum wage at all.

Terrence Wise, a McDonald’s worker from Kansas City, Missouri, who came to Chicago for the march, said striking had paid off for him. “Before I started organizing with Fight for $15 it had been two years since I had a raise,” said Wise, who has worked in different fast food and retail stores since age 16. “After the first time I went on strike I got a raise the very next day. Being in the fight and seeing my wage increase slightly has given me hope that we’re doing something right.”

Workers rallied outside the new McDonald’s corporate headquarters being built in Chicago’s trendy West Loop, on the site of Oprah Winfrey’s former studios. There, Chicago alderman Carlos Ramirez Rosa charged that taxpayers subsidize McDonald’s since its workers must rely on food stamps and other public assistance.

“Every time McDonald’s fails to provide health care and child care, who do they turn to?” he asked. “You! McDonald’s, it’s time for you to pay your fair share.”

Wise blamed the corporation for perpetuating “intergenerational poverty”. Growing up in South Carolina, he said his mother worked for Hardee’s restaurants for nearly 30 years.

“Watching her get up faithfully every morning at 5 am, working hard for years and years, and yet we continued to live in poverty in my childhood,” he said. “We’d come home some days and the lights were off, an eviction notice on the door. Now I see a repeat of it with me and my three little girls and my fiance. We’re working hard every day, I’m working for a very profitable company, and I’m still not being able to provide for my family.”

Along with demanding higher wages, the Fight for 15 campaign, supported by the SEIU labor union, is demanding fast food companies recognize workers’ right to organize unions. “We need a union so we’ve got someone backing us up,” said Betty Douglas of St Louis, who has worked for McDonald’s for 10 years and earns $10 an hour, after previously making $7.90.

Organizers said the Chicago march represented the largest yet coming together of groups on different issues relating their struggles to fast food workers’ rights. Women in poverty are more likely to suffer gender-based violence as well as sexual harassment and abuse on the job, advocates noted.

“A McDonald’s that respects women would have equal numbers of women in its boardrooms and its kitchens,” said Sheerine Alemzadeh, co-founder of the group Healing to Action. “And they wouldn’t worry that getting a raise or a promotion would mean complying with a boss’s sexual advances.”

And as the largest global buyer of beef, pork, lettuce and tomatoes, they said, McDonald’s is responsible for farmworkers’ exposure to toxic chemicals and the environmental impacts of mass agriculture.

“With all those people combined together we’re hoping to be heard,” said Ashley Bruce, a 22-year-old McDonald’s worker from Chicago and one of the leaders of the march. “No matter who’s in office, we’re still going to fight for what belongs to us. More and more of us are speaking out and speaking up. We deserve to be respected in the workplace, we deserve $15 an hour and union rights.”