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 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.

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.


OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING  (East)

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
Paver (over 27E cu. ft.): Concrete Paver (27 cu. ft. and under);
Concrete Placer; Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted); Concrete Conveyor
(Truck Mounted); Concrete Tower; Cranes, All; GCI and similar types
(required two operators only); 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 -
excluding hose work and any sewer work); Locomotives, All; Lubrication
Technician; Manipulators; Motor Patrol; 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; Rock Drill (self-propelled); Rock Drill -
Truck Mounted; Roto Mill Grinder; Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Slipform
Paver; Scrapers Prime Movers; Straddle Buggies; Tie Back Machine;
Tractor with Boom 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; Highlift Shovels or Front
Endloaders under 2-1/4 yd.; Hoists, Automatic; Hoists, Sewer Dragging
Machine; Hoists, Tugger Single Drum; Laser Screed; 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, Extracting, or Drilling - with a seat); Lowboys; Pumps, Over
3" (1 to 3 not to exceed 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. Elevator push button with automatic doors; Hoists, Inside;
Oilers; Brick Forklift.

Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman

Class 6. Mechanics; Welders.

Class 7. Gradall


OPERATING ENGINEERS - HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION (East)

Class 1. 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,
Tower of all types; Creter Crane; Crusher, Stone, etc.; Derricks,
All; Derrick Boats; Derricks, Traveling; Directional Boring Machine
over 12"; Dredges; Formless Curb and Gutter Machine; 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; Hydro Vac, Self
Propelled, Truck Mounted (excluding hose work and any sewer work);
Lubrication Technician; Manipulators; 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; GCI Crane; Hydraulic Telescoping Form
(Tunnel); Tie Back Machine; Tractor Drawn Belt Loader; Tractor Drawn
Belt Loader with attached pusher; Tractor with Boom; Tractaire with
Attachments; Traffic Barrier Conveyor Machine; Raised or Blind Hole
Drills; Trenching Machine (over 12"); Truck Mounted Concrete Pump with
Boom; Truck Mounted Concrete Conveyor; Work Boat (no license required
- 90 h.p. or above); 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 (large
self-propelled - excluding walk-behinds and hand-held); 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; All
Locomotives, Dinky; Off-Road Hauling Units; Non-Self Loading Dump;
Ejection Dump; Pump Cretes: Squeeze Cretes - Screw Type Pumps, Gypsum
Bulker and Pump; Roller, Asphalt; Rotary 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; Brick Forklift; Combination - Small
Equipment Operator; Directional Boring Machine up to 12"; 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, Well Points;
Tractaire; Trencher 12" and under; Welding Machines (2 through 5);
Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5. Oilers and Directional Boring Machine Locator.

Class 6. Field Mechanics and Field Welders

Class 7. Gradall and machines of like nature.

OPERATING ENGINEERS - BUILDING  (West)

Class 1. Shovel; Concrete Spreader; Dipper Dredge Operator; Dipper
Dredge Crane man; Dual Purpose Truck (boom, Boom, Winch, etc.);
Mechanic-Welder; Pile Driver; Boom Tractor or Side Boom; Trenching
Machine (40 H.P. and over); Building Hoist (1, 2 or 3 drums); Cleaning
and Priming Machine; Backfiller (throw bucket); Locomotive Engineer;
Concrete Paver; Slip Form Paver; Caisson Augering Machines; Mucking
Machine; Asphalt Heater-Planer Unit; Laser Screed; Pug Mill; Concrete
Conveyor or Pump; Mechanical loaded Log Chippers or similar machines;
Group Equipment Greaser; Off-Road Haul Units; Pipe Bending; Automatic
Curbing Machines; Blastholer; Self-Propelled Rotary Drill or similar
machines; Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float;
Asphalt Paver Screed Operator; Forklift (6,000 lb. cap. or over or
working heights 28 ft. and above); Chip Spreader; Straddle Carrier;
Asphalt Paver; Asphalt Plant Operator; Boring Machine (Directional,
Vertical, or Horizontal); Central Redi-Mix Plant Operator; Combination
Backhoe Front End loader; Concrete Breaker or Hydro-Hammer (excluding
walk-behinds); Concrete Wheel Saw (Large self-propelled - excluding
walk-behinds); Crusher (Stone, Concrete, Asphalt, etc.);
Curing-Tinning Machine; Excavator; Farm-type Tractor Operating Scoop
or Scraper or with Power Attachment; Grader; Motor Grader; Motor
Patrol; Auto Grader; Form Grader; Pull Grader; Sub Grader; Elevating
Grader; Guard Rail Post Driver; Hoists; Hydraulic Dredge Leverman or
Engineer; Hydro-Vac truck mounted or pull type (excluding hose work),
and similar equipment; Loader (Track, Rubber Tire, or Articulated);
Milling Machine (excluding walk-behinds); Road Widener-Shoulder
Spreader; Scraper (Self-Propelled); Self-Propelled Roller or Tire
Roller (on asphalt or Blacktop); Sheep Foot or Pad Foot Compactor
(excluding walk-behinds); Steel Track-Type Tractor (Dozer, Push Cat,
etc.); Transfer or Shuttle Buggy (excluding motorized wheel barrows
and Georgia buggies).

Class 2.  Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at Asphalt Plant;
Mud Jack; Distributor; Self-propelled Roller (other than provided for
in Class I); Pump Operator (more than one well-point pump); Trench
Machine (under 40 H.P.); Forklift (less than 6,000 lb. cap. or working
heights below 28 ft.); Gypsum Pump; Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Light
Plant; Boiler (Engineer or Fireman); Mechanical Broom; Driver on Truck
Crane or similar machines; Elevator (Permanent inside or Temporary
outside); Farm-Type Tractor (without Power Attachment); Grout Pump
(excluding hose work).

Class 3. Skid Loader; Oiler; Mechanic's Helper; Mechanical Heater
(other than steam boiler); Small Outboard Motor Boat (Safety Boat and
Life Boat); Engine Driven Welding Machine; Water Pumps; Air Compressor
(400 c.f.m. or over); Deck Engineers.

Class 4.  Leadman - Mechanic or Equipment Greaser.

Class 5.  Track Excavator with Bucket (4 cubic yard and up to but not
including 6 cubic yard).

Class 6. Track Excavator with Bucket (6 cubic yard and over).

Class 7. Crane (Friction or Hydraulic, regardless of size or
attachments); Tow or Push Boat.


OPERATING ENGINEERS- HIGHWAY (West)

Class 1. Shovel; Concrete Spreader; Dipper Dredge Operator; Dipper
Dredge Crane man; Dual Purpose Truck (Boom, Winch, etc.);
Mechanic-Welder; Pile Driver; Boom Tractor or Side Boom; Building
Hoist (1, 2 or 3 drums); Cleaning and Priming Machine; Backfiller
(throw bucket); Locomotive Engineer; Concrete Paver; Slip Form Paver;
Caisson Augering Machines; Mucking Machine; Asphalt Heater Planer
Unit; Laser Screed; Pug Mill; Concrete Conveyor or Pump (excluding
truck-mounted); Mechanical loaded Log Chippers or similar machines;
Group Equipment Greaser; off-road haul units; Pipe Bending; Automatic
Curbing Machines; Blastholer; Self-propelled Rotary Drill or similar
machines; Work Boat; Combination Concrete Finishing Machine and Float;
Asphalt Paver Screed Operator; Forklift (6,000 lb. cap. or over or
working heights above 28 ft.); Chip Spreader; Asphalt Paver; Asphalt
Plant Operator; Boring Machine (Directional, Vertical, or Horizontal);
Central Redi-Mix Plant Operator; Combination Backhoe Front End
loader; Concrete Breaker or Hydro-Hammer (excluding walk-behinds);
Concrete Wheel Saw (Large self-propelled - excluding walk-behinds);
Crusher (Stone, Concrete, Asphalt, etc.); Curing-Tinning Machine;
Excavator; Farm-Type Tractor Operating Scoop or Scraper with Power
Attachment; Grader; Motor Grader; Motor Patrol; Auto Grader; Form
Grader; Pull Grader; Sub Grader; Elevating Grader; Guard Rail Post
Driver; Hoists; Hydraulic Dredge Leverman or Engineer; Hydro-Vac truck
mounted or pull type, and similar equipment; Loader (Track, Rubber
Tire, or Articulated); Milling Machine (excluding walk-behinds); Road
Widener-Shoulder Spreader; Scraper (self-propelled); Self-propelled
Roller or Tire Roller (on asphalt or Blacktop); Sheep Foot or Pad Foot
Compactor (excluding walk-behinds); Steel Track-Type Tractor (Dozer,
Push Cat, etc.); Transfer or Shuttle Buggy (excluding motorized wheel
barrows and Georgia buggies); Trenching Machine (40 H.P. and over).


Class 2. Asphalt Booster; Fireman and Pump Operator at Asphalt Plant;
Mud Jack; Farm-Type Tractor without Power attachment; Distributor;
Straddle Carrier; Self-propelled Roller or Compactor (other than
provided for in Class I); Pump Operator (more than one well-point
pump); Trench Machine (under 40 H.P.); Forklift (less than 6,000  lb.
capacity or working heights below 28 ft.); Conveyor over 20 H.P.; Air
Compressor (400 c.f.m. or over); Light Plant; Boiler (Engineer or
Fireman); Mechanical Broom; Driver on Truck Crane or similar machines;
Elevator (Permanent inside or Temporary outside); Grout Pump
(excluding hose work).


Class 3. Oiler; Mechanic's Helper; Mechanical Heater (other than steam
boiler); Small Outboard Motor Boat (Safety Boat and Life Boat);
Engine Driven Welding Machine; skid steer.


Class 4.  Leadman - Mechanic or Equipment Greaser.


Class 5.  Track Excavator with Bucket (4 cubic yard and up to but not
including 6 cubic yard).


Class 6. Track Excavator with Bucket (6 cubic yard and over).


Class 7. Truck mounted Concrete Conveyor or Pumps Extending to 90 ft.
or more.


Class 8.  Crane (Friction or Hydraulic, regardless of size or
attachments); Tow or Push Boat.

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.





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.