Explanations

WHITESIDE COUNTY

ELECTRICIAN AND COMMUNICATION TECHNICIAN(EAST) - Townships of
Genessee, Jordan, Hopkins, Sterling, Hume, Montmorency, Tampico, and
Hahnaman.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN (WEST) - Portion west of Genesee, Hume,
Mount Pleasant, and Tampico Townships.

IRONWORKERS (EAST) - That part county North and East of a line from
Fair Haven (Carroll County) to Rt. 30, then to the East county line.

OPERATING ENGINEERS (WEST) - From the fifth sectional line east of
Morrison, running directly north and south.


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, 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.

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN - East

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.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN - West

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 - HIGHWAY

Individuals engaged in the following types of work, irrespective of
the site of the work:  asbestos abatement worker, handling of any
materials with any foreign matter harmful to skin or clothing, track
laborer, cement handlers, 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, tank
cleaners, 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 with technical engineers, rod and chainmen
with land surveyors, rod and chainmen with surveyors, vibrator
operators, cement silica, clay, fly ash, lime and plasters, handlers
(bulk or bag), cofferdam workers plus depth, on concrete paving,
placing, cutting and tying of reinforcing, deck hand, dredge hand, and
shore laborers, bankmen on floating plant, grade checker, power tools,
front end man on chip spreaders, cassion workers plus depth, gunnite
nozzle men, lead man on sewer work, welders, cutters, burners and
torchmen, chainsaw operators, jackhammer and drill operators, layout
man and/or drainage tile layer, steel form setter - street and
highway, air tamping hammermen, signal man on crane, concrete saw
operator, screedman on asphalt pavers, laborers tending masons with
hot material or where foreign materials are used, mortar mixer
operators, multiple concrete duct - leadsman, lumen, 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 tender, underpinning and shoring of
buildings, pump men, manhole and catch basin, dirt and stone tamper,
hose men on concrete pumps, hazardous waste worker, lead base paint
abatement worker, lining of pipe, refusing machine, assisting on
direct boring machine, the work of laying watermain, fire hydrants,
all mechanical joints to watermain work, sewer worker, and tapping
water service and forced lift station mechanical worker.


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.  Assistant Craft Foreman; Craft Foreman; Mechanic; Asphalt
Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde; 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 Paver; 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; Locomotives, All; Motor Patrol; Pile
Drivers and Skid Rig; Post Hole Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump
Cretes; Squeeze  Cretes-screw Type Pumps; Gypsum Bulker and Pump;
Raised and Blind Hole Drill; Rock Drill; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops -
Tractor Drawn; Slip-form   Paver; Straddle  Buggies; Tie Back Machine;
Tractor with Book and Side Boom; Trenching Machines.

Class 2.  Bobcat (over 3/4 cu. yd.); Boilers; Brick Forklift; Broom,
All Power Propelled; Bulldozers; Concrete Mixer (Two Bag and Over);
Conveyor, Portable; Forklift  Trucks; Greaser Engineer; Highlift
Shovels or Front Endloaders under 2-1/4 yd.; Hoists, Automatic;
Hoists, Sewer  Dragging Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum;  Rollers,
All; Steam Generators; Tractors, All; Tractor Drawn Vibratory Roller;
Winch Trucks with "A" Frame.

Class 3.  Air Compressor; Asphalt Spreader; Combination - Small
Equipment Operator; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hoists, Inside
Elevators - (Rheostat Manual  Controlled); Hydraulic Power Units (Pile
Driving and Extracting); 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; Bobcat (up to and including
3/4 cu. yd.).

Class 4.  Hoists, Inside Elevators, Push Button with Automatic Doors;
Oilers; Brick Forklift.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - EAST

Class 1.  Craft Foreman; Asphalt Plant, Asphalt Heater and Planer
Combination; Asphalt Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Silo Tender; Asphalt
Spreader; Autograder; ABG  Paver; Backhoes with Caisson attachment;
Ballast Regulator, Belt Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central
Redi-Mix Plant; Backhoe w/shear attachments;  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, Hammerhead, Linden, Peco & Machines
of a like nature;  Crete Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All;
Derrick Boats; Derricks, Traveling; Directional Boring Machine over
12"; Dredges; Field Mechanic-Welder; Formless  Curb and Gutter
Machine; Gradall and Machines of a like nature; Grader, Elevating;
Grader, Motor Grader, Motor Patrol, Auto Patrol, Form Grader, Pull
Grader,  Subgrader; Guard Rail Post Driver Mounted; Hoists, One, Two
and Three Drum; Hydraulic Backhoes; 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; Soil Test Drill Rig (Truck Mounted);
Straddle Buggies; GCI Crane; Hydraulic Telescoping form (Tunnel); Tie
Back Machine; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor with Boom;
Tractor-aire with  Attachments; Traffic Barrier conveyor machine;
Raised or Blind Hole; Trenching Machine; Truck Mounted Concrete Pump
with Boom; Truck Mounted Concrete  Conveyor; Underground Boring and/or
Mining Machines; 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; Conveyor Muck Cars (Haglund or
Similar Type); Drills, all; Finishing Machine - Concrete; Greaser
Engineer; Highlift Shovels or  Front Endloader; Hoist - Sewer Dragging
Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments); Hydro Blaster; Laser
Screed; All Locomotives, Dinky; Pump Cretes;  Squeeze Cretes-Screw
Type Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotory Snow
Plows; Rototiller, Seaman, etc., self-propelled; Scoops - Tractor
Drawn; Self-Propelled Compactor; Spreader - Chip - Stone, etc.;
Scraper; Scraper - Prime Mover in Tandem (Regardless of Size); 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; 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 - Small and Large; Asphalt Spreader, Backend
Man; Bobcat (Skid Steer) all; Combination - Small Equipment Operator;
Directional Boring  Machine up to 12"; Generators - Small 50kw and
Under; Generators - Large over 50kw; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic
Power Unit (Pile Driving, Extracting, or  Drilling); Hydro-Blaster;
Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed
a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well Points; Tract-aire; Welding Machines
(2  through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5.  Oilers and Directional Boring Machine Locator.

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.