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Demanding better wages for McDonald?s employees, about 2,000 protesters marched around the company?s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois yesterday. The protesters included several clergy members, many activists, and 325 uniformed McDonald?s employees. The president of the Service Employees International Union, Mary Kay Henry, and a NAACP official, William Barber also joined the protests. More than 100 people were arrested including Henry. The company issued a statement that it respected the right for its workers to demonstrate peacefully and to choose whether to have a union represent them or not, but the company was ?focused on welcoming our shareholders tomorrow?. McDonalds went so far as to advise most of the 3,200 people who work in the five buildings that comprise the corporate headquarters to work from home because of ?traffic concerns?.