Twelve protesters advocating an end to the government shutdown were arrested Wednesday outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.

The twelve were arrested by Capitol Police in the Russell Senate Office Building just before 2 p.m., following a larger demonstration where furloughed federal workers and their unions raised their voices.

They have been charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” according to USCP spokesperson Eva Malecki.

Event organizers said labor leaders planned the act of civil disobedience at McConnell’s Russell office ahead of time, and only labor officials, not government employees, planned to be arrested. Labor activists took the lead on civil disobedience, because being arrested could jeopardize federal workers’ jobs, whenever the government reopens.