Boeing Workers Stage Protest Near Seattle Over US Vaccine Mandate

Boeing employees and others wave to passing traffic in the rain as they protest the company's coronavirus disease vaccine mandate, outside the Boeing facility in Everett, Wash., on Oct. 15, 2021. Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

EVERETT, Wash.—Waving signs like “coercion is not consent,” and “stop the mandate,” some 200 Boeing Co employees and others staged a protest on Friday over the planemaker’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for U.S. workers.

Boeing said on Tuesday it will require U.S. employees to be vaccinated by Dec. 8 under an executive order issued by President Joe Biden for federal contractors.