Jared Franz

Tedesco Law Group

Jared joined the firm in 2025 after almost ten years of experience in Oregon’s labor movement as both an organizer and attorney. This includes serving in various roles at ATU Local 757, and several years as the Supervising Attorney (General Counsel) at SEIU Local 503, Oregon’s largest labor union.

He has substantial experience with all aspects of public sector union organizing and Oregon’s Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act (PECBA), and he is a longtime member of the Employment Relations Board (ERB) Rules Advisory Committee. He has similar experience with private sector unions covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and rare expertise on the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which strictly regulates union elections, officers, and the rights of union members. He is deeply committed to the labor movement and believes that strong unions are essential to the creation and maintenance of a more just society.Prior to his work in the labor movement, Jared was the Policy Director at OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon where, among other things, he helped organize a very influential union of low-income transit riders in the Portland metro area who fought for and won major changes to public transit fares and services in their communities. Jared was also an NGO Capacity Development Officer in the Peace Corps in South Africa before moving to Portland for law school and putting down roots in Oregon in 2010.

He was born and raised in Salt Lake City.Jared studies and supports critical legal theory and believes that legal systems in the United States – especially labor and employment laws – strongly favor the wealthy and the powerful over workers and other marginalized groups. He centers this critical perspective in all of his legal work and knows that the law works best when combined with other strategies for social change. In other words, he understands that real power for workers comes from collective action, not from clever lawyers (though a good lawyer helps).