Explanations

LASALLE COUNTY

ELECTRICIANS (NORTH) - Townships of Mendota, Meriden, Earl, Adams,
Troy Grove, Ophir, Northville, Freedom, Serena, Mission, Dimmick,
Waltham, Wallace, Dayton,  Rutland, Miller, Manlius, Peru, LaSalle,
Utica, Ottawa, South Ottawa, Eden, Vermilion, Deer Park, Farm Ridge.

MILLWRIGHTS (EAST) - The Eastern 1/3 of the county (approx.).

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, 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 equipment, tree topper or trimmer when in connection with
construction, and diver tender.

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
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 connectin 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.

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".