Explanations

MERCER COUNTY

ELECTRICIAN (SOUTHEAST) - Townships of Ohio Grove, Suez, and North
Henderson.

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates
of wages for work performed apply: New Years Day, Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and
Veterans Day in some classifications/counties.  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.  If in doubt, please
check with IDOL.

Oil and chip resealing (O&C) means the application of road oils and
liquid asphalt to coat an existing road surface, followed by
application of aggregate chips or gravel to coated surface, and
subsequent rolling of material to seal the surface.

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 TIEL FINISHER, MARBLE FINISHER, TERRAZZO FINISHER

Assisting, helping or supporting the tile, marble and terrazzo
mechanic by performing their historic and traditional work assignments
required to complete the proper installation of the work covered by
said crafts. The term "Ceramic" is used for naming the classification
only and is in no way a limitation of the product handled.  Ceramic
takes into consideration most hard tiles.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN

Installation, service and maintenance of low-voltage systems which
utilizes the transmission and/or transference of voice, sound, vision,
or digital for commercial, education, security and entertainment
purposes for the following:  TV monitoring and surveillance,
background/foreground music, intercom and telephone interconnect,
field programming, inventory control systems, microwave transmission,
multi-media, multiplex, radio page, school, intercom and sound burglar
alarms and low voltage master clock systems.

Excluded from this classification are energy management systems, life
safety systems, supervisory controls and data acquisition systems not
intrinsic with the above listed systems, fire alarm systems, nurse
call systems and raceways exceeding fifteen feet in length.

LABORER - BUILDING

Class 1:  General laborer, carpenter tender, tool cribman, salamander
tender, flagman, form handler, floor sweeper, material handler,
fencing laborer, cleaning  lumber, landscaper, unloading explosives,
laying of sod, planting/removal of trees, wrecking laborer, unloading
of Re-Bars, scaffold worker, signal man on crane.

Class 2:  Handling of materials treated with creosote, kettle men,
prime mover or motorized unit used for wet concrete or handling of
building materials,  vibrator operator, motar mixer, power tools used
under the jurisdiction of laborers, sand points, gunnite nozzle men,
welders, cutters, burners and torchmen,  chain saw operator,
jackhammer and drill operators, paving breakers, air tamping
hammerman, concrete saw operator, concrete burning machine operator,
coring machine operator - hod carrier and plasterer tender.

Class 3:  Caisson worker after 6 foot depth, dynamite man, asbestos
abatement worker, tunnel miners - mixerman (plaster only), pump man.

LABORER - HEAVY & HIGHWAY

Class 1:  Rod or chain man, flagman, dumpman, spotter, broom man,
landscaper, planting and removal of trees, fencing laborers,
dispatcher, ticket writer,  scaleman, cleaning of forms or lumber (in
bone yard), laying of sod, moving and/or maintenance of flares and
barricades.
Class 2:  Operation of all hand, electric, air, hydraulic or
mechanically powered tools under the jurisdiction of Laborers'
including jackhammers, tempers, air  spades, augers, concrete saws,
chain saws, utility saws, rock drills, vibrators, mortar mixer, power
and hand saw (when clearing timber) general laborer (not  elsewhere
covered), craft-tender, material checker, material handler, form
handler, concrete dumper, puddler, form setter helper, explosives
handler, dynamite  helper, center strip, reinforcing in concrete, wire
mesh handler and installer, prime mover or any mechanical device
taking the place of concrete buggy or  wheelbarrow, sandpoint setter,
asphalt kettleman.  Sheeting hammer drivers, laying and jointing of
telephone conduit, gas distribution men, pipe setter on  laterals,
drain tiles, culvert pipe, and storm sewer catch basin leads, catch
basins, manholes, batch dumpers, tank cleaners, cofferdam workers,
bankman on  floating plant, jointman with pipelayers.  Back-up man
(corker, joint maker) with pipe setter on sewer and water mains,
batterboard man or laser operator on  sewer and water main, labor in
ditch, or tunnel, on sewer or water mains and telephone conduit.
Cutters, burners, torchman, gravel box man, asphalt plant  laborers,
concrete plant laborer, deck hand, unloading of steel and rebar, laser
beam operator, wrecking laborers.

Class 3:  Asphalt raker or luteman, head form setter, head dynamite
man (powderman) head string or wireline man (on paving), pipe setter
on sewer or water  main, gunnite nozzle man, asphalt or concrete curb
machine operator, head grade man, head tunnel miner, concrete burning
machine operator, coring machine  operator, welder.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING

Class 1. An engineer on Crane; Shovel; Clamshell; Dragline; Backhoe;
Derrick; Tower Crane; Cable Way; Concrete Spreader (servicing two
pavers); Asphalt Spreader; Asphalt Mixer; Plant Engineer; Dipper
Dredge Operator; Dipper Dredge Craneman; Dual Purpose Truck (boom or
winch); Leverman or Engineman (hydraulic dredge); Mechanic; Paving
Mixer with tower attached; Pile Driver; Boom Tractor; Stationary,
Portable, or Floating Mixing Plant; Trenching Machine (over 40 H.P.);
Building Hoist (two drums); Hot Paint Wrapping Machine; Cleaning and
Priming Machine; Backfiller (throw bucket); Locomotive Engineer;
Qualified Welder; Tow or Push Boat; Concrete Paver; Seaman
Trav-L-Plant or similar machines; CMI Autograder or similar machine;
Slip Form Paver; Caisson Augering Machine; Mucking Machine; Asphalt
Heater-Planer Unit; Hydraulic Cranes; Mine Hoists; Laser Screed;
Athey; Barber-Green; Euclid or Haiss Loader; Asphalt Pug Mill; Fireman
and Drier; Concrete Pump; Concrete Spreader (servicing one paver);
Bulldozer; Endloader; Log Chippers or similar machines; Elevating
Grader; Group Equipment Greaser; LeTourneaupul and similar machines;
Off-Road Haul Units, DW-10; Hyster Winch and similar machines; Motor
Patrol; Power Blade; Push Cat; Tractor Pulling elevating Grader or
Power Blade; Tractor, Operating Scoop or Scraper; Tractor with Power
Attachment; Roller on Asphalt or Blacktop; Single Drum Hoist; Jaeger
Mix and Place Machine; Pipe Bending Machine; Flexaplane or similar
machines; Automatic Curbing Machines; Automatic Cement and Gravel
Batch Plants (one stop set-up); Seaman Pulvi-Mixer or similar
machines; Blastholer Self-Propelled Rotary Drill or similar machines;
Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float;
Self-propelled Sheep Foot Roller or Compactor (used in conjunction
with a Grading Spread); Asphalt Spreader Screed Operator; Apsco
spreader or similar machine; Slusher; Forklift (over 6000 lb. cap. or
working at heights above 28 ft.); Concrete Conveyors; Chip Spreader;
Underground Boring Machine; Straddle Carrier, Hydro Hammer; Hydraulic
Pumps or Power Units Driven by any power source (except manually) used
to hoist or lift machinery or material.

Class 2.  An engineer on Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at
Asphalt Plant; Mud Jack; Concrete Finishing Machine; Form Grader with
Roller on Earth; Mixers (3 bag to l6E); Power Operated Bull Float;
Tractor without Power attachment; Dope Pot (agitating motor); Dope
Chop Machine, Distributor (back end); Portable Machine Fireman; Power
Winch on Paving Work; Self-propelled Roller or Compactor (other than
provided for above); Pump Operator (more than one well-point pump);
Portable Crusher Operator; Trench Machine (under 40 H.P.); Power
Subgrader (on forms) or similar machines; Forklift (6000 lb. or less
cap.) Gypsum Pump; Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Fuller Kenyon Cement Pump or
similar machines; Light Plant; Mixers (1 or 2 bag); Power Batching
Machine (Cement Auger or Conveyor); Boiler (Engineer or Fireman);
Mechanical Broom; Automatic Cement and Gravel Batch Plants (two or
three stop set-up); Small Rubber-tired Tractors (not including
backhoes or endloaders); Self-propelled Curing Machine; Driver on
Truck Crane or similar machines.

Class 3. Engineer on a Skid Loader; Oiler; Mechanic's Helper;
Mechanical Heater (other than steam boiler); Belt Machine; Small
Outboard Motor Boats (Safety Boat and Life Boat); Engine Driven
Welding Machine; Small Tractors (used to unroll or roll wire mesh);
Water Pumps; Air Compressors; Permanent Automatic Elevators or Deck
Engineers.


OPERATING ENGINEERS- HIGHWAY

Class 1. An engineer on Crane; Shovel; Clamshell; Spreader (servicing
two pavers); Asphalt Spreader; Asphalt Mixer; Plant Engineer; Dipper
Dredge Operator; Dipper Dredge Craneman; Dual Purpose Truck (boom or
winch); Leverman or Engineman (hydraulic dredge); Mechanic; Paving
Mixer with tower attached; Pile Driver; Boom Tractor; Stationary, over
40 h.p.; Building Hoist (two drums); Hot Paint Wrapping Machine;
Cleaning and Priming Machine; Backfiller (throw bucket); Locomotive
Engineer; Qualified Welder; Tow or Push Boat; Concrete Paver; Seaman
Trav-L-Plant or similar machines; CMI Autograder or similar machines;
Slip Form Paver; Caisson Augering Machine; Mucking Machine; Asphalt
Heater Planer Unit; Hydraulic Cranes; Laser Screed; engineer on Athey;
Barber-Green; Euclid or Haiss Loader; Asphalt Pug Mill; Fireman and
Drier; Concrete Pump; Concrete Spreader (servicing one paver);
Bulldozer; Endloader; Log Chippers or similar machines; Elevating
Grader; Group Equipment Greaser, LeTourneaupul and similar machines;
off-road haul units; DW -10; Hyster Winch and similar machines; Motor
Patrol, Power Blade, Push Cat, Tractor Pulling elevating Grader or
Power Blade; Tractor Operating Scoop or Scraper; Tractor with Power
Attachment; Roller on Asphalt or Blacktop; Single Drum Hoist; Jaeger
Mix and Place Machine; Pipe Bending Machine; Flexaplane or similar
machines; Automatic Curbing Machines; Automatic Cement and Gravel
Batch Plants (one stop set-up); Seaman Pulvi-Mixer or similar
machines; Blastholer; Self-propelled Rotary Drill or similar machines;
Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float;
Self-Propelled Sheep Foot Roller or Compactor (used in conjunction
with a Grading Spread); Asphalt Spreader Screed Operator; Apsco
spreader or similar machine; Forklift (over 6000 lb. cap. or, working
at heights above 28 ft.); Concrete Conveyors; and Chip Spreader.

Class 2. An engineer on Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at
Asphalt Plant; Mud Jack; Underground Boring Machine; Concrete
Finishing Machine; Form Grader with Roller on Earth; Mixers (3 bag to
16E); Power Operated Bull Float; Tractor without Power attachment;
Dope Pot (agitating motor); Dope Chop Machine; Distributor (back end);
Straddle Carrier; Portable Machine Fireman; Hydro-Hammer; Power Winch
on Paving Work; Self-propelled Roller or Compactor (other than
provided for above); Pump Operator (more than one well-point pump);
Portable Crusher Operator; Trench Machine (under 40 H.P.); Power
Subgrader (on forms) or similar machines; Forklift (6000  lb. or less
capacity); Gypsum Pump; Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Fuller Kenyon Cement
Pump or similar machines; Air Compressor (400 c.f.m. or over); Light
Plant; Mixers (l or 2 bag); Power Batching Machine (Cement Auger or
Conveyor); Boiler (Engineer or Fireman); Water Pumps; Mechanical
Broom; Automatic Cement and Gravel Batch Plants (two or three stop
set-up); Small Rubber tired Tractors (not including backhoes or
endloaders;  Self-propelled Curing Machine; Brush Chipper; Driver on
Truck Crane or similar machines.

Class 3. Oiler; Mechanic's Helper; Mechanical Heater (other than steam
boiler); Belt Machine; Small Outboard Motor Boats (Safety Boat and
Life Boat); Engine Driven Welding Machine; Small Tractors (used to
unroll or roll wire mesh).


TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Class 1.  Drivers on 2 axle trucks hauling less than 9 ton.  Air
compressor and welding machines and brooms, including those pulled by
separate units, truck driver  helpers, warehouse employees, mechanic
helpers, greasers and tiremen, pickup trucks when hauling materials,
tools, or workers to and from and on-the-job  site, and fork lifts up
to 6,000 lb. capacity.

Class 2.  Two or three axle trucks hauling more than 9 ton but hauling
less than 16 ton.  A-frame winch trucks, hydrolift trucks, vactor
trucks or similar  equipment when used for transportation purposes.
Fork lifts over 6,000 lb. capacity, winch trucks, four axle
combination units, and ticket writers.

Class 3.  Two, three or four axle trucks hauling 16 ton or more.
Drivers on water pulls, articulated dump trucks, mechanics and working
forepersons, and  dispatchers.  Five axle or more combination units.

Class 4.  Low Boy and Oil Distributors.

Class 5.  Drivers who require special protective clothing while
employed on hazardous waste work.
TRUCK DRIVER - OIL AND CHIP RESEALING ONLY.

This shall encompass laborers, workers and mechanics who drive
contractor or subcontractor owned, leased, or hired pickup, dump,
service, or oil distributor trucks.  The work includes transporting
materials and equipment (including but not limited to, oils, aggregate
supplies, parts, machinery and tools) to or from the job site;
distributing oil or liquid asphalt and aggregate; stock piling
material when in connection with the actual oil and chip contract.
The Truck Driver (Oil & Chip Resealing) wage classification does not
include supplier delivered materials.




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.