Explanations

KNOX COUNTY

IRONWORKERS (SOUTHWEST) - That part of the county West of Rt. 41.

IRONWORKERS (SOUTHEAST) - That part of the county South and East of a
line from Tolona (Stark County) North of Victoria to (but excluding)
Galesburg looping  East and South of the city to Rt. 41 South to the
county line.


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, 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,  SKILLED - BUILDING

The skilled laborer building (BLD) classification shall encompass the
following types of work, irrespective of the site of the work: tending
of carpenters in unloading, handling, stockpiling and distribution
operations, also other building crafts, mixing, handling, and
conveying of all materials used by masons, plasterers and other
building construction crafts, whether done by hand or by any process.
The drying of plastering when done by salamander heat, and the
cleaning and clearing of all debris.  All work pertaining to and in
preparation of asbestos abatement and removal.  The building of
scaffolding and staging for masons and plasterers.  The excavations
for buildings and all other construction, digging, of trenches, piers,
foundations and holes, digging, lagging, sheeting, cribbing, bracing
and propping of foundations, holes, caissons, cofferdams, and dikes,
the setting of all guidelines for machine or hand excavation and
subgrading.  The mixing, handling, conveying, pouring, vibrating,
gunniting and otherwise applying of concrete, whether by hand or other
method of concrete for any walls, foundations, floors, or for other
construction concrete sealant men.  The wrecking, stripping,
dismantling, and handling of concrete forms and false work, and the
building of centers for fireproofing purposes.  Boring machine, gas,
electric or air in preparation for shoving pipe, telephone cable, and
so forth, under highways, roads, streets and alleys.  All hand and
power operating cross cut saws when used for clearing.  All work in
compressed air construction.  All work on acetylene burners in
salvaging.  The blocking and tamping of concrete.  The laying of sewer
tile and conduit, and pre-cast materials.  The assembling and
dismantling of all jacks and sectional scaffolding, including elevator
construction and running of slip form jacks.  The work of drill
running and blasting, including wagon drills.  The wrecking,
stripping, dismantling, cleaning, moving and oiling of forms.  The
cutting off of concrete piles.  The loading, unloading, handling and
carrying to place of installation of all rods, (and materials for use
in reinforcing) concrete and the hoisting of same and all signaling
where hoist is used in this type of construction coming under the
jurisdiction of the Laborers' Union.  And, all other labor work not
awarded to any other craft.  Mortar mixers, kettlemen and carrier of
hot stuff, tool crib men, watchmen (Laborer), firemen or salamander
tenders, flagmen, deck hands, installation and maintenance of
temporary gas-fired heating units, gravel box men, dumpmen and
spotters, fencing Laborers, cleaning lumber, pit men, material
checkers, dispatchers, unloading explosives, asphalt plant laborers,
writer of scale tickets, fireproofing laborers, janitors, asbestos
abatement and removal laborers, handling of materials treated with
oil, creosote, chloride, asphalt, and/or foreign material harmful to
skin or clothing, Laborers with de-watering systems, gunnite nozzle
men, laborers tending masons with hot material or where foreign
materials are used, Laborers handling masterplate or similar
materials, laser beam operator, concrete burning machine operator,
material selector men working with firebrick or combustible material,
dynamite men, track laborers, cement handlers, chloride handlers, the
unloading and laborers with steel workers and re-bars, concrete
workers (wet), luteman, asphalt raker, curb asphalt machine operator,
ready mix scalemen, permanent, portable or temporary plant drilling
machine operator, plaster tenders, underpinning and shoring of
buildings, fire watch, signaling of all power equipment, to include
trucks excavating equipment, etc., tree topper or trimmer when in
connection to construction, tunnel helpers in free air, batch dumpers,
kettle and tar men, tank cleaners, plastic installers, scaffold
workers, motorized buggies or motorized unit used for wet concrete or
handling of building materials, sewer workers, rod and chain men,
vibrator operators, mortar mixer operator, cement silica, clay, fly
ash, lime and plasters, handlers (bulk or bag), cofferdam workers, on
concrete paving, placing, cutting and tying of reinforcing, deck hand,
dredge hand and shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant, asphalt
workers with machine & layers, grade checker, power tools, caisson
workers, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutters, burners and torch
men, chain saw operators, paving breaker, jackhammer and drill
operator, layout man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setters --
street and highway, air tamping hammerman, signal man on crane,
concrete saw operator, screen man on asphalt pavers, front end man on
chip spreader, multiple concrete duct -- lead man.

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
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.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING

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

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).

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.