Explanations

PUTNAM COUNTY

OPERATING ENGINEERS (EAST) - That part of the county east of the
Illinois River.

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 TILE FINISHER, MARBLE FINISHER, TERRAZO 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.

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 AND HIGHWAY

The skilled laborer building (BLD) and heavy & highway (HWY)
classification shall encompass the following types of work,
irrespective of the site of the work: flagging, caisson worker plus
depth, gunnite nozzle men, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutter
burners and torchmen, chain saw operator, paving breaker, jackhammer
and drill operators, layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form
setter  - street and highway, air tamping hammerman, signal man on
crane, concrete saw operator, concrete saw operator walk behind,
screenman on asphalt pavers, front end man on chip spreader, laborers
tending masons with hot material 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, coring machine operator, plaster tenders,
underpinning and shoring of buildings, material selector when working
with fire-brick or castable material, fire watch, signaling of all
power equip-ment, tree topper or trimmer when in connection with
construction, and diver tender.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING  (East)

Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde; Backhoes
w/Caisson attachment; Batch Plant; Benoto (require 2 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 over 27E cu. ft.; Concrete Paver 27E cu.ft. and under; 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; Hydro Vac
(and similar equipment); Locomotives, All; Lubrication Technician;
Manipulators; Motor Patrol; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig; Post Hole
Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Squeeze Cretes -
Screw Type Pumps; Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops -
Tractor Drawn; Slip-Form Paver; Straddle Buggies; Tournapull; Tractor
with Boom and Side Boom; Trenching Machines.

Class 2. Boilers; Broom, All Power Propelled; Bulldozers; Concrete
Mixer (Two Bag and Over); Conveyor, Portable; Forklift Trucks;
Highlift Shovels or Front Endloaders under 2-1/4 yd; Hoists,
Automatic; Hoists, inside Freight Elevators; Hoists, Sewer Dragging
Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Laser Screed; Rock Drill
(self-propelled); Rock Drill (Truck Mounted); Rollers, All; Steam
Generators; Tractors, All; Tractor Drawn Vibratory Roller; Winch
Trucks with "A" Frame.

Class 3. Air Compressors; Combination - Small Equipment Operator;
Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside Elevators - (Rheostat
Manual Controlled); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile Driving and
Extracting); Lowboys; 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.

Class 4. Bobcat / Skidsteer Loader; Brick Forklift; Hoists, Inside
Elevators push button with automatic doors; Oilers.

Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman

Class 6. Mechanics and Welders

Class 7. Gradall


OPERATING ENGINEERS - HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION (East)

Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Heater and Planer Combination; Asphalt
Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Spreader; Autograder/Gomaco or other similar
type machines: ABG Paver; Backhoes with Caisson Attachment; Belt
Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central Redi-Mix Plant; 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, Tower of all types;
Creter Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derrick Boats;
Derricks, Traveling; Dredges; Elevators, Outside Type Rack & Pinion
and Similar Machines; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader,
Elevating; Grader, Motor Grader, Motor Patrol, Auto Patrol, Form
Grader, Pull Grader, Subgrader; Guard Rail Post Driver Truck Mounted;
Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum; Hydraulic Backhoes; Locomotives, All;
Backhoes with Shear Attachments; Lubrication Technician;
Manipulators; Mucking Machine; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig; Pre-Stress
Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Rock Drill - Truck Mounted; Roto Mill
Grinder; Slip-Form Paver; Snow Melters; Soil Test Drill Rig (Truck
Mounted); Straddle Buggies; Hydraulic Telescoping Form (Tunnel);
Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader with attached
pusher; Tractor with Boom; Tractaire with Attachments; Trenching
Machine; Truck Mounted Concrete Pump with Boom; Raised or Blind Hole
Drills (Tunnel Shaft); Underground Boring and/or Mining Machine; 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; Concrete Wheel Saw; Conveyor Muck
Cars (Haglund or Similar Type); Drills, All; Finishing Machine -
Concrete; Forklifts; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloader; Hoist -
Sewer Dragging Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments);
Hydro-Blaster (requires 2 operators; one being Class 4); Locomotives,
Dinky; Oil Distributor; Off-Road Hauling Units (Including
Articulating); Laser Screed; Pump Cretes; Squeeze Cretes - Screw Type
Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotary Snow Plows;
Rototiller, Seaman, etc., Self-Propelled; Scoops - Tractor Drawn;
Self-Propelled Compactor; Spreader - Chip - Stone, etc.; Scraper;
Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem; 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; Grouting Machine; Hoists, Automatic; Hoists, All
Elevators; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Jeep Diggers; Low Boys; Pipe
Jacking Machine; Post-Hole Digger; Power Saw, Concrete Power Driven;
Pug Mills; Rollers, other than asphalt; Seed and Straw Blower; Steam
Generators; Stump Machine Heaters, Mechanical; Winch Trucks with "A"
Frame; Work Boats; Tamper - Form - Motor Driven.

Class 4. Air Compressor; Brick Forklifts; Combination - Small
Equipment Operator; Directional Boring Machine; Generators; Heaters,
Mechanical; Hydraulic Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or
Drilling); Hydro-Blaster (requires 2 operators - one being class 2);
Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed
a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Tractaire; Welding Machines
(2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5. Oilers; Bobcats (All)

Class 6. Mechanics and Welders.

Class 7. Gradall and machines of like nature.


OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING - (West)

Class 1.  Cranes; Overhead Cranes; Gradall; All Cherry Pickers;
Mechanics; Central Concrete Mixing Plant Operator; Road Pavers (27E -
Dual Drum - Tri Batchers);  Blacktop Plant Operators and Plant
Engineers; 3 Drum Hoist; Derricks; Hydro Cranes; Shovels; Skimmer
Scoops; Koehring Scooper; Drag Lines; Backhoe; Derrick  Boats; Pile
Drivers and Skid Rigs; Clamshells; Locomotive Cranes; Dredge (all
types) Motor Patrol; Power Blades - Dumore - Elevating and similar
types; Tower  Cranes (Crawler-Mobile) and Stationary; Crane-type
Backfiller; Drott Yumbo and similar types considered as Cranes;
Caisson Rigs; Dozer; Tournadozer; Work  Boats; Ross Carrier;
Helicopter; Tournapulls - all and similar types; Scoops (all sizes);
Pushcats; Endloaders (all types); Asphalt Surfacing Machine; Slip Form
Paver;  Rock Crusher; Heavy Equipment Greaser; CMI, CMI Belt Placer,
Auto Grade & 3 Track and similar types; Side Booms; Multiple Unit
Earth Movers; Creter Crane;  Trench Machine; Pump-crete-Belt
Crete-Squeeze Cretes-Screw-type Pumps and Gypsum; Bulker & Pump -
Operator will clean; Formless Finishing Machine;  Flaherty Spreader or
similar types; Screed Man on Laydown Machine; Wheel Tractors
(industrial or Farm-type w/Dozer-Hoe-Endloader or other attachments);
F.W.D. & Similar Types; Vermeer Concrete Saw.

Class 2.  Dinkeys; Power Launches; PH One-pass Soil Cement Machine
(and similar types); Pugmill with Pump; Backfillers; Euclid Loader;
Forklifts; Jeeps w/Ditching  Machine or other attachments; Tuneluger;
Automatic Cement and Gravel Batching Plants; Mobile Drills (Soil
Testing) and similar types; Gurries and Similar Types;  (1) and (2)
Drum Hoists (Buck Hoist and Similar Types); Chicago Boom; Boring
Machine & Pipe Jacking Machine; Hydro Boom; Dewatering System; Straw
Blower;  Hydro Seeder; Assistant Heavy Equipment Greaser on Spread;
Tractors (Track type) without Power Unit pulling Rollers; Rollers on
Asphalt -- Brick Macadem;  Concrete Breakers; Concrete Spreaders; Mule
Pulling Rollers; Center Stripper; Cement Finishing Machines & CMI
Texture & Reel Curing Machines; Cement Finishing  Machine; Barber
Green or similar loaders; Vibro Tamper (All similar types)
Self-propelled; Winch or Boom Truck; Mechanical Bull Floats; Mixers
over 3 Bag to 27E;  Tractor pulling Power Blade or Elevating Grader;
Porter Rex Rail; Clary Screed; Truck Type Hoptoe Oilers; Fireman;
Spray Machine on Paving; Curb Machines;  Truck Crane Oilers; Oil
Distributor; Truck-Mounted Saws.

Class 3.  Air Compressor; Power Subgrader; Straight Tractor; Trac Air
without attachments; Herman Nelson Heater, Dravo, Warner, Silent Glo,
and similar types;  Roller:  Five (5) Ton and under on Earth or
Gravel; Form Grader; Crawler Crane & Skid Rig Oilers; Freight
Elevators - permanently installed; Pump; Light Plant;  Generator;
Conveyor (1) or (2) - Operator will clean; Welding Machine; Mixer (3)
Bag and Under (Standard Capacity with skip); Bulk Cement Plant; Oiler
on Central  Concrete Mixing Plant.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - (West)

CLASS 1.  Cranes; Hydro Cranes; Shovels; Crane Type Backfiller; Tower,
Mobile, Crawler, & Stationary Cranes; Derricks; Hoists (3 Drum);
Draglines; Drott Yumbo & Similar Types considered as Cranes; 360
Degree Swing Excavator (Shears, Grapples, Movacs, etc.); Back Hoe;
Derrick Boats; Pile Driver and Skid Rigs; Clam Shell; Locomotive -
Cranes; Road Pavers - Single Drum - Dual Drum - Tri Batcher; Motor
Patrols & Power Blades - Dumore - Elevating & Similar Types;
Mechanics; Central Concrete Mixing Plant Operator; Asphalt Batch Plant
Operators and Plant Engineers; Gradall; Caisson Rigs; Skimmer Scoop -
Koering Scooper; Dredges (all types); Hoptoe; All Cherry Pickers;
Work Boat; Ross Carrier; Helicopter; Dozer; Tournadozer; Tournapulls -
all and similar types; Operation of Concrete and all Recycle
Machines; Multiple Unit Earth Movers; Scoops (all sizes); Pushcats;
Endloaders (all types); Asphalt Surfacing Machine; Slip Form Paver;
Rock Crusher; Operation of Material Crusher, Screening Plants, and
Tunnel Boring Machine; Heavy Equipment Greaser (top greaser on
spread); CMI, Auto Grade, CMI Belt Placer & 3 Track and Similar Types;
Side Booms; Asphalt Heater & Planer Combination (used to plane
streets); Wheel Tractors (with Dozer, Hoe or Endloader Attachments);
CAT Earthwork Compactors and Similar Types; Blaw Knox Spreader and
Similar Types; Trench Machines; Pump Crete - Belt Crete - Squeeze
Crete - Screw Type Pumps and Gypsum (operator will clean); Creter
Crane; Operation of Concrete Pump Truck; Formless Finishing Machines;
Flaherty Spreader or Similar Types; Screed Man on Laydown Machine;
Vermeer Concrete Saw; Operation of Laser Screed; Span Saw; Dredge
Leverman; Dredge Engineer; Lull or Similar Type; Hydro-Boom Truck;
Operation of Guard Rail Machine; and Starting Engineer on Pipeline or
Construction (11 or more pieces) including: Air Compressor (Trailer
Mounted), All Forced Air Heaters (regardless of Size), Water Pumps
(Greater than 4-1/2" or Total Discharge Over 4-1/2"), Light Plants,
Generators (Trailer Mounted - Excluding Decontamination Trailer),
Welding Machines (Any Size or Mode of Power), Conveyor, Mixer (any
size), Stud Welder, Power Pac, etc, and Ground Heater (Trailer
Mounted).

CLASS 2.  Bulker & Pump; Power Launches; Boring Machine & Pipe Jacking
Machine; Dinkeys; Operation of Carts, Powered Haul Unit for a Boring
Machine; P & H One Pass Soil Cement Machines and Similar Types; Wheel
Tractors (Industry or Farm Type - Other); Back Fillers; Euclid Loader;
Fork Lifts; Jeep w/Ditching Machine or Other Attachments; Tunneluger;
Automatic Cement & Gravel Batching Plants; Mobile Drills - Soil
Testing and Similar Types; Pugmill with Pump; All (1) and (2) Drum
Hoists; Dewatering System; Straw Blower; Hydro-Seeder; Bump Grinders
(self-propelled); Assistant Heavy Equipment Greaser; Apsco Spreader;
Tractors (Track-Type) without Power Units Pulling Rollers; Rollers on
Asphalt - Brick or Macadam; Concrete Breakers; Concrete Spreaders;
Cement Strippers; Cement Finishing Machines & CMI Texture & Reel
Curing Machines; Vibro-Tampers (All Similar Types Self-Propelled);
Mechanical Bull Floats; Self-Propelled Concrete Saws; Truck Mounted
Power Saws; Operation of Curb Cutters; Mixers - Over Three (3) Bags;
Winch and Boom Trucks; Tractor Pulling Power Blade or Elevating
Grader; Porter Rex Rail; Clary Screed; Mule Pulling Rollers; Pugmill
without Pump; Barber Greene or Similar Loaders; Track Type Tractor
w/Power Unit attached (minimum); Fireman; Spray Machine on Paving;
Curb Machines; Paved Ditch Machine; Power Broom; Self-Propelled
Sweepers; Self-Propelled Conveyors; Power Subgrader; Oil Distributor;
Straight Tractor; Truck Crane Oiler; Truck Type Oilers; Directional
Boring Machine; Horizontal Directional Drill; Articulating End Dump
Vehicles; Starting Engineer on Pipeline or Construction (6 -10
pieces) including: Air Compressor (Trailer Mounted), All Forced Air
Heaters (regardless of Size), Water Pumps (Greater than 4-1/2" or
Total Discharge Over 4-1/2"), Light Plants, Generators (Trailer
Mounted - Excluding Decontamination Trailer), Welding Machines (Any
Size or Mode of Power), Conveyor, Mixer (any size), Stud Welder, Power
Pac, etc., and Ground Heater (Trailer Mounted).

CLASS 3.  Straight Framed Truck Mounted Vac Unit (separately powered);
Trac Air Machine (without attachments); Rollers - Five Ton and Under
on Earth and Gravel; Form Graders; Bulk Cement Plant; Oilers; and
Starting Engineer on Pipeline or Construction (3 - 5  pieces)
including: Air Compressor (Trailer Mounted), All Forced Air Heaters
(regardless of Size), Water Pumps (Greater than 4-1/2" or Total
Discharge Over 4-1/2"), Light Plants, Generators (Trailer Mounted -
Excluding Decontamination Trailer), Welding Machines (Any Size or Mode
of Power), Conveyor, Mixer (any size), Stud Welder, Power Pac, etc.,
and Ground Heater (Trailer Mounted).


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.