Explanations

IROQUOIS COUNTY

ELECTRICIANS (SOUTHWEST) - Townships of Artesia, Loda and Pigeon
Grove.

TRUCK DRIVER (SOUTHEAST) - Pigeon Grove, Fountain Creek, Lovejoy,
Prairie Green, Milford and Stockland Townships.

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.

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, MARBLE FINISHER, AND TERRAZZO FINISHER

The laying, setting and finishing of all tile where used for floors,
walls, ceilings, walks, promenade roofs, stair treads, stair risers,
facings, hearths, fireplaces, and decorative inserts, together with
any marble plinths, thresholds or window stools used in connection
with any tile work; also to prepare and set all concrete, cement,
brickwork, or other foundation or materials that may be required to
properly set and complete such work; the setting or bedding of all
tiling, stone, marble, composition, glass, mosaic, or other materials
forming the facing, hearth or fireplace of a mantle, or the mantle
complete, together with the setting of all cement, brickwork, or other
material required in connection with the above work; also the
slabbing and fabrication of tile mantels, counters and tile panels of
every description and the erection and installation of same and the
building, shaping, forming, construction, or repairing of all
fireplace work, whether in connection with the mantle hearth facing or
not, and the setting and preparing of all material, such as cement,
plaster, mortar, brickwork, iron work or other materials necessary for
the proper and safe construction and completion of such work.  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.

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN

Installation, operation, inspection, maintenance, repair and service
of radio, television, recording, voice, sound and vision production
and reproduction,  telephone and telephone interconnect, facsimile,
equipment and appliances used for domestic, commercial, educational
and entertainment purposes, pulling of  wire through conduit but not
the installation of conduit.

LABORER,SKILLED - BUILDING

The skilled laborer building (BLD) classification shall encompass the
following types of work, irrespective of the site of the work: caisson
workers plus depth, gunnite nozzle men, lead man on sewer work,
welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chain saw operators, paving
breaker, jackhammer and drill operators, layout man and/or drainage
tile layer, steel form setters - street and highway, air tamping
hammerman, signal man on crane, concrete saw operator, screenman on
asphalt pavers, front end man on chip spreader, laborers tending
masons with hot materials or where foreign materials are used,
multiple concrete duct-leadman, luteman, 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 tenders, underpinning and shoring of buildings,
material selec-tor when working with fire-brick or castable material,
fire watch, signaling of all power equipment, and tree topper or
trimmer when in connection with construction.

LABORER,  SKILLED - HIGHWAY

The skilled laborer heavy and highway (HWY) classification shall
encompass the following types of work, irrespective of the site of the
work: handling of materials treated with oil, creosote, asphalt
and/or any foreign materials harmful to skin or clothing, track
laborers, 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, 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,
vibrator operators, mortar mixer operators, cement silica, clay, fly
ash, lime and plasters, handlers (bulk or bag), cofferdam workers plus
depth, on concrete paving, placing, cutting and tying or reinforcing,
deck hand, dredge hand shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant,
asphalt workers with machine, and layers, grade checker, power tools,
stripping of all concrete forms excluding paving forms, dumpmen and
spotters, when necessary, caisson workers plus depth, gunnite nozzle
men, welders, cutters, burners and torchmen, chain saw operators,
paving breaker, jackhammer and drill operators, layout man and/or
drainage tile layer, steel form setters - street and highway, air
tamping hammerman, signal man on crane, concrete saw operator,
screedman on asphalt pavers, front end man on chip spreader, multiple
concrete duct, luteman, asphalt raker, curb asphalt machine operator,
ready mix scalemen (portable or temporary plant), laser beam operator,
concrete burning machine operator, and coring machine operator.

TRUCK DRIVER - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - SOUTHEAST

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 - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - NORTHWEST

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  Shreader; Skipman; Slurry Trucks, 2-man
operation; Slurry Truck Conveyor Operation, 2 or 3 man; Teamsters;
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, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

Class 1.  Power Cranes, Draglines, Derricks, Shovels, Gradalls,
Mechanics, Tractor Highlift, Tournadozer, Concrete Mixers with Skip,
Tournamixer, Two Drum  Machine, One Drum Hoist with Tower or Boom,
Cableways, Tower Machines, Motor Patrol, Boom Tractor, Boom or Winch
Truck, Winch or Hydraulic Boom Truck,  Truck Crane, Tournapull,
Tractor Operating Scoops, Bulldozer, Push Tractor, Asphalt Planer,
Finishing Machine on Asphalt, Large Rollers on Earth, Rollers on
Asphalt Mix, Ross Carrier or similar Machine, Gravel Processing
Machine, Asphalt Plant Engineer, Paver Operator, Dredging Equipment,
or Dredge Engineer, or  Dredge Operator, Central Mix Plant Engineer,
CMI or similar type machine, Concrete Pump, Truck or Skid Mounted,
Tower Crane, Engineer or Rock Crusher Plant,  Concrete Plant Engineer,
Ditching Machine with dual attachment, Tractor Mounted Loaders,
Cherry Picker, Hydro Crane, Standard or Dinkey Locomotives,
Scoopmobiles, Euclid Loader, Soil Cement Machine, Back Filler,
Elevating Machine, Power Blade, Drilling Machine, including Well
Testing, Caissons, Shaft or any  similar type drilling machines, Motor
Driven Paint Machine, Pipe Cleaning Machine, Pipe Wrapping Machine,
Pipe Bending Machine, Apsco Paver, Boring Machine,  (Head Equipment
Greaser), Barber-Greene Loaders, Formless Paver, (Well Point System),
Concrete Spreader, Hydra Ax, Span Saw, Marine Scoops, Brush Mulcher,
Brush Burner, Mesh Placer, Tree Mover, Helicopter Crew (3),
Piledriver-Skid or Crawler, Stump Remover, Root Rake, Tug Boat
Operator, Refrigerating Machine,  Freezing Operator, Chair Cart-
Self-Propelled, Hydra Seeder, Straw Blower, Power Sub Grader, Bull
Float, Finishing Machine, Self-Propelled Pavement Breaker, Lull  (or
similar type Machine), Two Air Compressors, Compressors hooked in
Manifold, Overhead Crane, Chip Spreader, Mud Cat, Sull-Air, Fork Lifts
(except when  used for landscaping work), Soil Stabilizer (Seaman
Tiller, Bo Mag, Rago Gator, and similar types of equipment), Tube
Float, Spray Machine, Curing Machine,  Concrete or Asphalt Milling
Machine, Snooper Truck-Operator, Backhoe, Farm Tractors (with
attachments), 4 Point Lift System (Power Lift or similar type),
Skid-Steer (Bob Cat or similar type), Wrecking Shears, Water Blaster.

Class 2.  Concrete Mixers without Skips, Rock Crusher, Ditching
Machine under 6', Curbing Machine, One Drum Machines without Tower or
Boom, Air Tugger,  Self-Propelled Concrete Saw, Machine Mounted Post
Hole Digger, two to four Generators, Water Pumps or Welding Machines,
within 400 feet, Air Compressor  600 cu. ft. and under, Rollers on
Aggregate and Seal Coat Surfaces, Fork Lift (when used for landscaping
work), Concrete and Blacktop Curb Machine, One Water  Pump, Oilers,
Air Valves or Steam Valves, One Welding Machine, Truck Jack, Mud Jack,
Gunnite Machine, House Elevators when used for hoisting material,
Engine  Tenders, Fireman, Wagon Drill, Flex Plane, Conveyor, Siphons
and Pulsometer, Switchman, Fireman on Paint Pots, Fireman on Asphalt
Plants, Distributor Operator  on Trucks, Tampers, Self-Propelled Power
Broom, Striping Machine (motor driven), Form Tamper, Bulk Cement
Plant, Equipment Greaser, Deck Hands, Truck Crane  Oiler-Driver,
Cement Blimps, Form Grader, Temporary Heat, Throttle Valve, Super
Sucker (and similar type of equipment).

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.