Explanations

DEKALB COUNTY

IRONWORKERS (NORTHWEST) - That portion of the county from a point
where the western county line intersects with Rt. 30, continuing
eastward to Shabbona, north between Shabbona and Clare, and northeast
between Clare and New  Lebanon.

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates
of wages for work performed apply:  New Years Day,
Memorial/Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day,
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. Generally, any of these holidays
which fall on a Sunday is celebrated on the following Monday.  This
then makes work performed on that Monday payable at the appropriate
overtime rate for holiday pay.  Common practice in a given local may
alter certain days of celebration such as the day after Thanksgiving
for Veterans Day.  If in doubt, please check with IDOL.

EXPLANATION OF CLASSES

ASBESTOS - GENERAL - removal of asbestos material/mold and hazardous
materials from any place in a building, including mechanical systems
where those mechanical systems are to be removed.  This includes the
removal of asbestos materials/mold and hazardous materials from
ductwork or pipes in a building when the building is to be demolished
at the time or at some close future date.

ASBESTOS - MECHANICAL - removal of asbestos material from mechanical
systems, such as pipes, ducts, and boilers, where the mechanical
systems are to  remain.

CERAMIC TILE FINISHER

The grouting, cleaning, and polishing of all classes of tile, whether
for interior or exterior purposes, all burned, glazed or unglazed
products; all composition materials, granite tiles, warning detectable
tiles, cement tiles, epoxy composite materials, pavers, glass,
mosaics, fiberglass, and all substitute materials, for tile made in
tile-like units; all mixtures in tile like form of cement, metals, and
other materials that are for and intended for use as a finished floor
surface, stair treads, promenade roofs, walks, walls, ceilings,
swimming pools, and all other places where tile is to form a finished
interior or exterior.  The mixing of all setting mortars including but
not limited to thin-set mortars, epoxies, wall mud, and any other
sand and cement mixtures or adhesives when used in the preparation,
installation, repair, or maintenance of tile and/or similar materials.
The handling and unloading of all sand, cement, lime, tile,
fixtures, equipment, adhesives, or any other materials to be used in
the preparation, installation, repair, or maintenance of tile and/or
similar materials.  Ceramic Tile Finishers shall fill all joints and
voids regardless of method on all tile work, particularly and
especially after installation of said tile work.  Application of any
and all protective coverings to all types of tile installations
including, but not be limited to, all soap compounds, paper products,
tapes, and all polyethylene coverings, plywood, masonite, cardboard,
and any new type of products that may be used to protect tile
installations, Blastrac equipment, and all floor scarifying equipment
used in preparing floors to receive tile.  The clean up and removal of
all waste and materials.  All demolition of existing tile floors and
walls to be re-tiled.

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN

Installing, manufacturing, assembling and maintaining sound and
intercom, protection alarm (security), fire alarm, master antenna
television, closed circuit television, low voltage control for
computers and/or door monitoring, school communications systems,
telephones and servicing of nurse and emergency calls, and the
installation and maintenance of transmit and receive antennas,
transmitters, receivers, and associated apparatus which operates in
conjunction with above systems.  All work associated with these system
installations will be included EXCEPT the installation of protective
metallic conduit in new construction projects (excluding less than
ten-foot, runs strictly for protection of cable) and 120 volt AC (or
higher) power wiring and associated hardware.

LABORER, SKILLED - HIGHWAY

Individuals engaged in the following types of work, irrespective of
the site of the work:  asbestos abatement worker, handling of any
materials with any foreign matter harmful to skin or clothing, track
laborer, cement handlers, chloride handlers, the unloading and loading
with steel workers and re-bars, concrete workers wet, tunnel helpers
in free air, batch dumpers, mason tenders, kettle and tar men, tank
cleaners, plastic installers, scaffold workers, motorized buggies or
motorized unit used for wet concrete or handling of building
materials, laborers with de-watering systems, sewer workers plus
depth, rod and chainmen with technical engineers, rod and chainmen
with land surveyors, rod and chainmen with surveyors, vibrator
operators, cement silica, clay, fly ash, lime and plasters, handlers
(bulk or bag), cofferdam workers plus depth, on concrete paving,
placing, cutting and tying of reinforcing, deck hand, dredge hand, and
shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant, grade checker, power
tools, front end man on chip spreaders, cassion workers plus depth,
gunnite nozzle men, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutters, burners
and torchmen, chainsaw operators, jackhammer and drill operators,
layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setter - street and
highway, air tamping hammermen, signal man on crane, concrete saw
operator, screedman on asphalt pavers, laborers tending masons with
hot material or where foreign materials are used, mortar mixer
operators, multiple concrete duct - leadsman, lumen, asphalt raker,
curb asphalt machine operator, ready mix scalemen (permanent, portable
or temporary plant), laborers handling masterplate or similar
materials, laser beam operator, concrete burning machine operator,
coring machine operator, plaster tender, underpinning and shoring of
buildings, pump men, manhole and catch basin, dirt and stone tamper,
hose men on concrete pumps, hazardous waste worker, lead base paint
abatement worker, lining of pipe, refusing machine, assisting on
direct boring machine, the work of laying watermain, fire hydrants,
all mechanical joints to watermain work, sewer worker, and tapping
water service and forced lift station mechanical worker.

MATERIAL TESTER I:  Hand coring and drilling for testing of materials;
field inspection of uncured concrete and asphalt.

MATERIAL TESTER II:  Field inspection of welds, structural steel,
fireproofing, masonry, soil, facade, reinforcing steel, formwork,
cured concrete, and concrete and asphalt batch plants; adjusting
proportions of bituminous mixtures.

TERRAZZO FINISHER

The handling of sand, cement, marble chips, and all other materials
that may be used by the Mosaic Terrazzo Mechanic, and the mixing,
grinding, grouting, cleaning and sealing of all Marble, Mosaic, and
Terrazzo work, floors, base, stairs, and wainscoting by hand or
machine, and in addition, assisting and aiding Marble, Masonic, and
Terrazzo Mechanics.

TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1.  Two or three Axle Trucks.  A-frame Truck when used for
transportation purposes; Air Compressors and Welding Machines,
including those pulled by cars, pick-up trucks and tractors;
Ambulances; Batch Gate Lockers; Batch Hopperman; Car and Truck
Washers; Carry-alls; Fork Lifts and Hoisters; Helpers;  Mechanics
Helpers and Greasers; Oil Distributors 2-man operation; Pavement
Breakers; Pole Trailer, up to 40 feet; Power Mower Tractors;
Self-propelled Chip  Spreader; Skipman; Slurry Trucks, 2-man
operation; Slurry Truck Conveyor Operation, 2 or 3 man; TTeamsters
Unskilled dumpman; and Truck Drivers hauling warning lights,
barricades, and portable toilets on the job site.

Class 2.  Four axle trucks; Dump Crets and Adgetors under 7 yards;
Dumpsters, Track Trucks, Euclids, Hug Bottom Dump Turnapulls or
Turnatrailers when pulling other than self-loading equipment or
similar equipment under 16 cubic yards; Mixer Trucks under 7 yeards;
Ready-mix Plant Hopper Operator, and Winch Trucks, 2 Axles.

Class 3.  Five axle trucks; Dump Crets and Adgetors 7 yards and over;
Dumpsters, Track Trucks, Euclids, Hug Bottom Dump Turnatrailers or
turnapulls when pulling other than self-loading equipment or similar
equipment over 16 cubic yards; Explosives and/or Fission Material
Trucks; Mixer Trucks 7 yards or over; Mobile Cranes while in transit;
Oil Distributors, 1-man operation; Pole Trailer, over 40 feet; Pole
and Expandable Trailers hauling material over 50 feet long; Slurry
trucks, 1-man operation; Winch trucks, 3 axles or more;
Mechanic--Truck Welder and Truck Painter.

Class 4.  Six axle trucks; Dual-purpose vehicles, such as mounted
crane trucks with hoist and accessories; Foreman; Master Mechanic;
Self-loading equipment  like P.B. and trucks with scoops on the front.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING

Class 1.  Assistant Craft Foreman; Craft Foreman; Mechanic; Asphalt
Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde; Batch Plant; Benoto (requires Two
Engineers); Boiler and  Throttle Valve; Caisson Rigs; Central Redi-Mix
Plant; Combination Back Hoe Front End-loader Machine; Compressor and
Throttle Valve; Concrete Breaker (Truck  Mounted); Concrete Conveyor;
Concrete Paver; Concrete Placer; Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted);
Concrete Tower, Cranes, All, Cranes, Hammerhead, Creter  Crane;
Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derricks, Traveling; Formless
Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grouting Machines;
Highlift Shovels or Front  Endloader 2-1/4 yd. and over; Hoists,
Elevators, outside type rack and pinion and similar machines; Hoists,
one, two and three Drum; Hoists, Two tugger One Floor;  Hydraulic
Backhoes; Hydraulic Boom Trucks; Locomotives, All; Motor Patrol; Pile
Drivers and Skid Rig; Post Hole Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump
Cretes; Squeeze  Cretes-screw Type Pumps; Gypsum Bulker and Pump;
Raised and Blind Hole Drill; Rock Drill; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops -
Tractor Drawn; Slip-form   Paver; Straddle  Buggies; Tie Back Machine;
Tractor with Book and Side Boom; Trenching Machines.

Class 2.  Bobcat (over 3/4 cu. yd.); Boilers Brick Forklift; Broom,
All Power Propelled; Bulldozers; Concrete Mixer (Two Bag and Over);
Conveyor, Portable; Forklist  Trucks; Greaser Engineer; Highlift
Shovels or Front Endloaders under 2-1/4 yd.; Hoists, Automatic;
Hoists, Sewer  Dragging Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum;  Rollers,
All; Steam Generators; Tractors, All; Tractor Drawn Vibratory Roller;
Winch Trucks with "A" Frame.

Class 3.  Air Compressor; Asphalt Spreader; Combination - Small
Equipment Operator; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside
Elevators - (Rheostat Manual  Controlled); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile
Driving and Extracting); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total
of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Welding Machines (2  through 5);
Winches, 4 small Electric Drill Winches; Bobcat (up to and including
3/4 cu. yd.).

Class 4.  Hoists, Inside Elevators, Push Button with Automatic Doors;
Oilers; Brick Forklift.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1.  Craft Foreman; Asphalt Plant, Asphalt Heater and Planer
Combination; Asphalt Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Silo Tender; Asphalt
Spreader; Autograder; ABG  Paver; Backhoes with Caisson attachment;
Ballast Regulator, Belt Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central
Redi-Mix Plant; Backhoe w/shear attachments;  Combination Backhoe
Front Endloader Machine, (1 cu. yd. Backhoe Bucket or over or with
attachments); Concrete Breaker (Truck Mounted): Concrete Conveyor;
Concrete Paver over 27E cu. ft.; Concrete Placer; Concrete Tube Float;
Cranes, all attachments; Cranes, Hammerhead, Linden, Peco & Machines
of a like nature;  Crete Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All;
Derrick Boats; Derricks, Traveling; Directional Boring Machine over
12"; Dredges; Field Mechanic-Welder; Formless  Curb and Gutter
Machine; Gradall and Machines of a like nature; Grader, Elevating;
Grader, Motor Grader, Motor Patrol, Auto Patrol, Form Grader, Pull
Grader,  Subgrader; Guard Rail Post Driver Mounted; Hoists, One, Two
and Three Drum; Hydraulic Backhoes; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig;
Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes  Dual Ram; Rock Drill - Crawler or
Skid Rig; Rock Drill - Truck Mounted; Rock/Track Tamper; Roto Mill
Grinder; Slip-Form Paver; Soil Test Drill Rig (Truck Mounted);
Straddle Buggies; GCI Crane; Hydraulic Telescoping form (Tunnel); Tie
Back Machine; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor with Boom;
Tractor-aire with  Attachments; Traffic Barrier conveyor machine;
Raised or Blind Hole; Trenching Machine; Truck Mounted Concrete Pump
with Boom; Truck Mounted Concrete  Conveyor; Underground Boring and/or
Mining Machines; Wheel Excavator; Widener (APSCO).

Class 2.  Batch Plant; Bituminous Mixer; Boiler and Throttle Valve;
Bulldozers; Car Loader Trailing Conveyors; Combination Backhoe Front
Endloader Machine (less  than 1 cu. yd. Backhoe Bucket or over or with
attachments); Compressor and Throttle Valve; Compressor, Common
Receiver (3); Concrete Breaker or Hydro  Hammer; Concrete Grinding
Machine; Concrete Mixer or Paver 7S Series to and including 27 cu.
ft.; Concrete Spreader; Concrete Curing Machine, Burlap Machine,
Belting Machine and Sealing Machine; Conveyor Muck Cars (Haglund or
Similar Type); Drills, all; Finishing Machine - Concrete; Greaser
Engineer; Highlift Shovels or  Front Endloader; Hoist - Sewer Dragging
Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments); Hydro Blaster;
Laser Screed; All Locomotives, Dinky; Pump Cretes;  Squeeze
Cretes-Screw Type Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt;
Rotory Snow Plows; Rototiller, Seaman, etc., self-propelled; Scoops -
Tractor  Drawn; Self-Propelled Compactor; Spreader - Chip - Stone,
etc.; Scraper; Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem (Regardless of Size);
Tank Car Heater; Tractors, Push,  Pulling Sheeps Foot, Disc,
Compactor, etc. Tug Boats.

Class 3.  Boilers; Brooms, All Power Propelled; Cement Supply Tender;
Compressor, Common Receiver (2); Concrete Mixer (Two Bag and Over);
Conveyor, Portable;  Farm-Type Tractors Used for Mowing, Seeding,
etc.; Fireman on Boilers; Forklift Trucks; Grouting Machine; Hoists,
Automatic; Hoists, All Elevators; Hoists, Tugger  Single Drum; Jeep
Diggers, Low Boys; Pipe Jacking Machines; Post-Hole Digger; Power Saw,
Concrete Power Driven; Pug Mills; Rollers, other than asphalt; Seed
and  Straw Blower; Steam Generators; Stump Machine; Winch Trucks with
"A" Frame; Work Boats; Tamper - Form-Motor Driven.

Class 4.  Air Compressor - Small and Large; Asphalt Spreader, Backend
Man; Bobcat (Skid Steer) all; Combination - Small Equipment Operator;
Directional Boring  Machine up to 12"; Generators - Small 50kw and
Under; Generators - Large over 50kw; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic
Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or  Drilling); Hydro-Blaster;
Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed
a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Tract-aire; Welding Machines
(2  through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5.  Oilers and Directional Boring Machine Locator.

Other Classifications of Work:

For definitions of classifications not otherwise set out, the
Department generally has on file such definitions which are available.
If a task to be performed is not subject to one of the
classifications of pay set out, the Department will  upon being
contacted state which neighboring county has such a classification and
provide such rate, such rate being deemed to exist by reference in
this  document.  If no neighboring county rate applies to the task,
the Department shall undertake a special determination, such special
determination  being then deemed to have existed under this
determination.  If a project requires these, or any classification not
listed, please contact IDOL at 217-782-1710 for  wage rates or
clarifications.

LANDSCAPING

Landscaping work falls under the existing classifications for laborer,
operating engineer and truck driver.  The work performed by landscape
plantsman and  landscape laborer is covered by the existing
classification of laborer.  The work performed by landscape operators
(regardless of equipment used or its size) is  covered by the
classifications of operating engineer.  The work performed by
landscape truck drivers (regardless of size of truck driven) is
covered by the  classifications of truck driver.