Labour Court says it has no jurisdiction over BATU claims against Finlay Breton

The Labour Court said on 6 April 2006 that it had no jurisdiction to hear the Building And Allied Trades Union’s substantive claims against Finlay Breton (Ireland) Ltd. The merits were not decided. BATU represented three carpenters who had left SIPTU to join the union. The Court found that collective bargaining and dispute-resolution procedures remained available to the workers through the employer’s existing arrangements with SIPTU, so the statutory conditions for a hearing were not met.