July/August - MTA

Automotive Repair Division AGM
Members of the
Automotive Repairer
Division gained the first preview
of our new Heavy Vehicle
Workshop on Tuesday, April 27
when they held their Annual
General Meeting at Royal Park.
The state-of-art $2.7 million
workshop includes underground
rainwater storage as well as
green electricity generated by
a large bank of solar panels
feeding power to the workshop
and grid.
Following the workshop
tour members were brought
up to speed on association
matters through a presentation
by Executive Director, John
Chapman. It was an excellent
presentation highlighting recent
lobbying achievements by the
Association that have benefited
members’ business operations
through adjustments to Land
Tax or vehicle legislation in
regards to window tinting. John’s
presentation also brought to
attention the strategic planning
to provide future benefits in
quality trained industry staff,
member protection through
advocacy, association structure
review, membership and
marketing initiatives, budgets,
organisational capacity and
resource management.
AGM
The newly elected committee is
Danny Massacci - Auto Studio,
Bruce Cussans - Bruce Cussans
Automatics, John Hurley - Kent
Town Auto Tune, Peter Stewart
- Rowell & Searle Automatics,
Brian Weeks - Western Auto
Repair, Darryl Siggs - Auto
ARD AGM 2010-11.
Steering & The Car Nut, Peter
Rusack - Rusack Motors, Peter
Young - Alltrac 4WD and
John Eglezos - SA Chassis &
Suspension Repair.
At the committee meeting,
held directly after the AGM,
Brian Weeks returned as elected
Chairman of the Division and
Board Representative, while
John Eglezos retained his
position as Vice Chairman.
Upper North zone meeting
The Upper North zone
meeting held in Jamestown
once again had a great turn out
of members.
The MTA members received a
presentation of the Association’s
current activities over the past
three months, including the
progress of the Group Training
Scheme’s new facility.
Michael Sheehan from the
MTA’s industrial department
gave members a presentation
on the Fair Work Act and
Award Modernisation and what
responsibilities members have
in meeting the new regulations
both now and going forward as
new sections of the Fair Work
Act are rolled out.
Michael Sheehan also stressed
to members that the MTA is
there to assist them and that
they are just a phone call away.
Richard Stock from the Group
Training Scheme gave members
a behind the scenes description
into the new facility at Royal
Park and the huge investment
made by the Association, not
only in the new workshop
structure but also in the new
equipment available for training.
MTA business partner SGIC
Business insurances’ Brenton
Waller presented members with
a question of under insurance
and the impacts on businesses if
problem issues should arise.
The MTA would like to thank
all the members who attended the
zone meeting and also to those
members who stayed behind to
look at a short presentation of
the MTA’s new business tool
ERIS. ERIS is a 24/7 on-line
employee relations system to
assist members in nearly every
facet of their business, with over
5000 pages of information to
assist MTA members ERIS is a
one stop shop.
Upper North zone meeting May 2010.
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