Explanations

LIVINGSTON COUNTY

CEMENT MASONS & PLASTERER - N  That part of the county north of
Illinois Route 116 and including all of the City of Pontiac.

IRONWORKERS - E   East of I-55 from the northern boundary through
Cayuga then East of a North-South line to a point East of Weston.

PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS - S  That part of the county South of Rt. 116
including the City of Pontiac.

TRUCK DRIVERS - NW  Townships of Reading, New Town, Sunbury, Nevada,
Long Point and Amity.

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, 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.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN

Installation, service and maintenance of low-voltage systems which
utilizes the transmission and/or transference of voice, sound, vision,
or digital for commercial, education, security and entertainment
purposes for the following:  TV monitoring and surveillance,
background/foreground music, intercom and telephone interconnect,
field programming, inventory control systems, microwave transmission,
multi-media, multiplex, radio page, school, intercom and sound burglar
alarms and low voltage master clock systems.

Excluded from this classification are energy management systems, life
safety systems, supervisory controls and data acquisition systems not
intrinsic with the above listed systems, fire alarm systems, nurse
call systems and raceways exceeding fifteen feet in length.

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.

MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR I:  Hand coring and drilling for testing of
materials; field inspection of uncured concrete and asphalt.

MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR 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 ENGINEERS - BUILDING

Class 1. Mechanic; Asphalt Plant; Asphalt Spreader; Autograde;
Backhoes w/Caisson attachment; Batch Plant; Benoto (require 2
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 27E cu.ft. and under;
Concrete Placer; Concrete Pump (Truck Mounted); Concrete Tower;
Cranes, All; Cranes Hammerhead; 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; Lubrication
Technician; Manipulators; Motor Patrol; Pile Drivers and Skid Rig;
Post Hole Digger; Pre-Stress Machine; Pump Cretes Dual Ram; Squeeze
Cretes - Screw Type Pumps; Gypsum Bulker and Pump; Roto Mill Grinder;
Scoops - Tractor Drawn; Slip-Form Paver; Straddle Buggies; Operation
of Tieback Machine; Tournapull; Tractor with Boom and Side Boom;
Trenching Machines.

Class 2. Boilers; Brick Forklift servicing seven (7) or more Brick
Masons; 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
Freight Elevators; Hoists, Sewer Dragging Machine; Hoists, Tugger
Single Drum; Hydro Excavating (excluding hose work); Laser Screed;
Rock Drill (self-propelled); Non Self-Loading Ejection Dump; 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); 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. Brick Forklift; Boom Trucks (Residential); Hoists, Inside
Elevators push button with automatic doors; Oilers; Skidsteer Loaders;
Vacuum Trucks (excluding hose work).

Class 5. Assistant Craft Foreman

Class 6. Mechanics and Welders

Class 7. Gradall


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; Belt
Loader; Caisson Rigs; Car Dumper; Central Redi-Mix Plant; Combination
Backhoe Front Endloader Machine; 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; 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; Heavy Duty Self-Propelled Transporter or Prime Mover;
Hoists, One, Two and Three Drum; Hydraulic Backhoes; Locomotives, All;
Backhoes with Shear Attachments; 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; 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; Tractor with Boom; Tractaire with Attachments; Transfer
Barrier Transfer Machine; Trenching Machine; Truck Mounted Concrete
Pump with Boom; Raised or Blind Hole Drills (Tunnel Shaft);
Underground Boring and/or Mining Machine; 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; Forklifts; Highlift Shovels or Front Endloader; Hoist -
Sewer Dragging Machine; Hydraulic Boom Trucks (All Attachments);
Hydro-Blaster (requires 2 operators; one being Class 4); Hydro
Excavating (excluding hose work); Laser Screed; Locomotives, Dinky;
Oil Distributor; 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; Scraper - Prime Mover in
Tandem; Tractors, Push, Pulling Sheeps Foot, Disc, Compactor, etc.;
Tug Boats; Mechanic Welders working in permanent shop.

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.;
Grouting Machine; Hoists, Automatic; Hoists, All Elevators; Hoists,
Tugger Single Drum; Jeep Diggers; Low Boys; Pipe Jacking Machine;
Post-Hole Digger; Power Saw, Concrete Power Driven; Pug Mills;
Rollers, other than asphalt; Seed and Straw Blower; Steam Generators;
Stump Machine Heaters, Mechanical; Winch Trucks with "A" Frame; Work
Boats; Tamper - Form - Motor Driven.

Class 4. Air Compressor; Brick Forklifts (Servicing Seven (7) or more
Brick Masons; Combination - Small Equipment Operator; Directional
Boring Machine; Generators; Heaters, Mechanical; Hydraulic Power Unit
(Pile Driving, Extracting, or Drilling); Hydro-Blaster (requires 2
operators - one being class 2); Light Plants, All (1 through 5);
Pumps, over 3" (1 to 3 not to exceed a total of 300 ft.); Pumps, Well
Points; Tractaire; Vacuum Trucks (excluding hose work); Welding
Machines (2 through 5); Winches, 4 Small Electric Drill Winches.

Class 5. Brick Forklifts; Oilers; Skidsteer Loaders (All).

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 - NORTHWEST

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 - BUILDING, HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - SOUTHEAST

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.

MATERIAL TESTER & MATERIAL TESTER/INSPECTOR I AND II

Notwithstanding the difference in the classification title, the
classification entitled "Material Tester I" involves the same job
duties as the classification entitled "Material Tester/Inspector I".
Likewise, the classification entitled "Material Tester II" involves
the same job duties as the classification entitled "Material
Tester/Inspector II".