Explanations

HENRY COUNTY

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN (SE) - Townships of Annawan, Cambridge,
Burns, Kewanee, Weller, Galva, and Wethersfield.

ELECTRICIANS AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN (NW) - That portion
North and West of Annawan, Burns, Cambridge, and Weller Townships.

MILLWRIGHT (NORTH) - North of interstate 80.

OPERATING ENGINEERS (EAST) - The eastern half of the county divided by
highway 82 excluding Geneseo.

The following list is considered as those days for which holiday rates
of wages for work performed apply: New Years Day, Memorial/Decoration
Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day. 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 such as the day after Thanksgiving for Veterans Day.
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 - Southeast

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.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN - Northwest

Installing, assembling and maintaining sound and intercom, protection
alarm (security), master antenna television, closed circuit
television, computer  hardware and software programming and
installation to the network's outlet and input (EXCLUDING all cabling,
power and cable termination work historically  performed by wiremen),
door monitoring and control, nurse and emergency call programming and
installation to the system's outlet and input (EXCLUDING all  cabling,
power and cable termination work historically performed by wiremen),
clock and timing; and the installation and maintenance of transmit and
receive  antennas, transmitters, receivers, and associated apparatus
which operates in conjunction with the above systems.  All work
associated with these system  installations will be included EXCEPT
(1) installation of protective metallic conduit, excluding less than
ten-foot runs strictly for protection of cable, and (2) 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: 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 - EAST

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 - EAST

Class 1.  Cranes; Hydro Crane; Shovels; Crane Type Backfiller; Tower
Cranes - Mobile & Crawler & Stationary; Derricks & Hoists (3 Drum);
Draglines; Drott Yumbo  & similar types considered as Cranes; 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; Multiple Unit Earth Movers; Scoops (all sizes);
Pushcats; Endloaders (all types); Asphalt  Surfacing Machine; Slip
Form Paver; Rock Crusher; Heavy Equipment Greaser (top greaser on
spread); CMI, Auto Grade, CMI Belt Placer & 3 Track and similar
types; Side Booms; Starting Engineer on Pipeline; Asphalt Heater &
Planer Combination (used to plane streets); Wheel Tractors (with
dozer, hoe or endloader  attachments); F.W.D. 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); Formless Finishing Machines; Flaherty Spreader or similar
types; Screed Man on Laydown Machine; Vermeer Concrete Saw.

Class 2.  Bulker & Pump; Power Launches; Boring Machine & Pipe Jacking
Machine; Dinkeys; 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;  Boring
Machine; Hydro-Boom; Bump Grinders (self-propelled); Assistant Heavy
Equipment Greaser; Apsco Spreader; Tractors (track-type) without Power
Units  Pulling 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; Mixers-over three (3) bags to 27E; 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 Conveyors; Power
Subgrader; Oil Distributor; Straight Tractor; Truck Crane Oiler; Truck
Type Oilers; Directional boring machine; Horizontal  directional
drill.

Class 3.  Straight framed articulating end dump vehicles and Truck
mounted vac unit (separately powered); Trac Air Machine (without
attachments); Herman  Nelson Heater, Dravo Warner, Silent Glo &
similar types; Rollers - five ton and under on earth and gravel; Form
Graders; Pumps; Light Plant; Generator; Air  Compressor (1) or (2);
Conveyor; Welding Machine; Mixer - 3 bags and under; Bulk Cement
Plant; Oilers.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - WEST

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 machines, Slip
Form Paver, Caisson Augering  Machine, Mucking Machine, Asphalt
Heater-Planer Unit, Hydraulic Cranes, Mine Hoists.

Class 2.  An 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, Slusher, Forklift (over 6000 lb.
cap. or working at  heights above 28 ft.) Concrete Conveyors, Chip
Spreader, Underground Boring Machine (BUILDING ONLY), Straddle
Carrier, Hydro-Hammer (BUILDING ONLY),  Hydraulic Pumps or Power Units
Driven by any power source (except manually), used to hoist or lift
machinery or material.

Class 3.  An engineer on Asphalt Booster, Fireman and Pump Operator at
Asphalt Plant, Mud Jack, Underground Boring Machine (HIGHWAY ONLY),
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 (HIGHWAY ONLY), 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 or less cap.) Gypsum Pump,
Conveyor over 20 H.P., Fuller Kenyon Cement Pump or  similar machines.

Class 4.   An engineer on Air Compressor (400 c.f.m. or over HIGHWAY
ONLY), Light Plant, Mixers (1 or 2 bag), Power Batching Machine
(Cement Auger or  Conveyor), Boiler (Engineer or Fireman), Water Pumps
(HIGHWAY ONLY), 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 5.  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, and Small Tractors
(used to unroll or roll wire mesh), Water pumps (BUILDING ONLY), Air
Compressors (BUILDING ONLY), Permanent  Automatic Elevators.

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 618/993-7271 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.