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/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

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.


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; Backhoes w/Caisson attachment;
Batch Plant; Benoto;  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; Hydro Vac (and
similar equipment.); 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; 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; Greaser
Engineer; 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);  Hoists, Inside Elevators; Hydraulic Power Units
(Pile Driving and Extracting); Vibratory Roller; 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/Skid Steer Loader; Brick Forklift; Hoists, Inside
Elevators push button with automatic doors; Oilers.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - EAST

Class 1.  Craft Foreman; Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Heater and Planer
Combination; Asphalt Heater Scarfire; Asphalt Spreader; Autograder;
ABC 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, Hammerhead, Linden, Peco & Machines
of a like nature; Creter Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks, All;
Derrick Boats; Derricks,  Traveling; Dowell Machine; 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 Truck Mounted; Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum;
Hydraulic  Backhoes; Mucking Machine; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig;
Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Rock/Track Tamper; Rock
Drill - Truck Mounted; Roto Mill  Grinder; Slip-Form Paver; Soil Test
Drill Rig (Truck Mounted); Straddle Buggies; Hydraulic Telescoping
form (Tunnel); 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 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; Concrete Wheel Saw; 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; Locomotives, Dinky; Laser  Screed; Pump
Cretes; Squeeze Cretes-Screw Type Pumps, Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Rock
Drill - Crawler or Skid Rig; Rock Drill - Truck Mounted; 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; 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; 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); Hydro-Blaster;
Light Plants, All (1 through 5); Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed
a total of 300 ft.); Pumps; Tractaire; Welding  Machines (2 through
5); Winches.

Class 5.  Bobcats (All); Brick Forklifts; Oilers.

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 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 vehicle 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.

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.