On April 22, 2016, the San Diego Chargers professional football team held a press conference with the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council. Officials for the team and the unions announced a plan to require construction companies to sign a Project Labor Agreement with unions as a condition of building a new stadium and associated annex for the San Diego Convention Center.

The Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction believes this union deal was primarily motivated by two issues:

1. The desire of the Chargers to have union campaign support for a proposed tax increase to fund the project.
   
2. An anticipated threat from unions to block the project using the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) unless they obtained monopoly control of the construction trade workforce.