Explanations

KANKAKEE COUNTY

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

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 - 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 selector 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.

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.


OPERATING ENGINEER - BUILDING

Class 1. Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde; Backhoes with
Caisson Attachment; 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
Conveyor (Truck Mounted); Concrete Paver Over 27E cu. ft; Concrete
Paver 27E cu. ft. and Under: Concrete Placer; Concrete Placing Boom;
Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted); Concrete Tower; Cranes, All; Cranes,
Hammerhead; Cranes, (GCI and similar Type); Creter Crane; Spider
Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All; Derricks, Traveling;
Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; Grader, Elevating; Grouting
Machines; Heavy Duty Self-Propelled Transporter or Prime Mover;
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; Motor Patrol; Lubrication Technician; Manipulators;
Pile Drivers and Skid Rig; Post Hole Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump
Cretes Dual Ram; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes-Screw Type Pumps; Gypsum
Bulker and Pump; Raised and Blind Hole Drill; Roto Mill Grinder;
Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Slip-Form Paver; Straddle Buggies; Operation
of Tie Back Machine; 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 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 Compressor; Combination Small Equipment Operator;
Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside Elevators (remodeling
or renovation work); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile Driving, Extracting,
and Drilling); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300
ft.); Low Boys; Pumps, Well Points; Welding Machines (2 through 5);
Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 4. Bobcats and/or other Skid Steer Loaders; Oilers; and Brick
Forklift.

Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman.

Class 6. Gradall.

Class 7. Mechanics; Welders.


OPERATING ENGINEERS - HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

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; Ballast
Regulator; 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
Cranes of all types: Creter Crane: Spider 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; Heavy
Duty Self-Propelled Transporter or Prime Mover; Hydraulic Backhoes;
Backhoes with shear attachments up to 40' of boom reach; Lubrication
Technician; Manipulators; Mucking Machine; 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; Snow Melters; Soil Test Drill Rig (Truck
Mounted); Straddle Buggies; Hydraulic Telescoping Form (Tunnel);
Operation of Tieback Machine;  Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor
Drawn Belt Loader (with attached pusher - two engineers); Tractor with
Boom; Tractaire with Attachments; Traffic Barrier Transfer Machine;
Trenching; Truck Mounted Concrete Pump with Boom; Raised or Blind Hole
Drills (Tunnel Shaft); Underground Boring and/or Mining Machines 5
ft. in diameter and over tunnel, etc; Underground Boring and/or Mining
Machines under 5 ft. in diameter; 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; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloader; Hoist - Sewer Dragging
Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments); Hydro-Blaster; Hydro
Excavating (excluding hose work); Laser Screed; All Locomotives,
Dinky; Off-Road Hauling Units (including articulating) Non
Self-Loading Ejection Dump; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes - Screw Type
Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotary Snow Plows;
Rototiller, Seaman, etc., self-propelled; Self-Propelled Compactor;
Spreader - Chip - Stone, etc.; Scraper - Single/Twin Engine/Push and
Pull; Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem (Regardless of Size); Tractors
pulling attachments, 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.;
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; Combination - Small Equipment Operator;
Directional Boring Machine; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic
Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or Drilling); Light Plants, All
(1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300
ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Vacuum Trucks (excluding hose work); Welding
Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5. SkidSteer Loader (all); Brick Forklifts; Oilers.

Class 6. Field Mechanics and Field Welders

Class 7. Dowell Machine with Air Compressor; Gradall and machines of
like nature.

SURVEY WORKER - Operated survey equipment including data collectors,
G.P.S. and robotic instruments, as well as conventional levels and
transits.

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; 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.


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.