Before and during the company’s annual shareholders meeting, hundreds of people gathered to advocate for higher wages and better working conditions.

May 21, 2014 Police guard the entrance of the McDonald’s corporate campus as about 2,000 fast-food workers and activists demonstrating for higher wages march toward the facility in Oak Brook, Ill. The demonstrators were calling on McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurant chains to pay a minimum wage of $15-per-hour and offer better working conditions for their employees. Scott Olson/Getty Images