The 2008 NWroots Conference is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors.

The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 is a diverse union of more than 30,000 workers in retail, health care, laundry, and other service industries. Local 21 represents more retail employees and more professional and technical health care employees than any other union in the state. Local 21 was formed in October 2005, when a merger between UFCW Local 1001 and Local 1105 went into effect. Members of both unions voted by more than 97% to unite to form a larger, stronger union. Local 21 is the largest union in Washington State.

SEIU Healthcare 775NW was formed in 2003 when home care and nursing home workers from several different SEIU locals united together to form a union focused specifically on long-term care workers and issues. SEIU Healthcare 775NW now represents almost 34,000 home care and nursing home workers in Washington state and Montana. It is named after Initiative 775, the Quality Home Care Initiative which voters overwhelmingly approved in 2001 and which gave 23,000 Individual Provider home care workers the right to form a union in the largest union election ever held in Washington State.