Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.  The Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) series was designed to contribute to a better understanding of the processes which underlie employment relationships by making available for the first time large, systematic and dispassionate evidence about a broad range of industrial relations and employment practices across almost every sector of the economy. Data from the 1990 WIRS survey are also included in a later panel survey in the series, 'Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1998 : Panel Survey 1990-1998', held under SN:4026 Main Topics: The survey consists of questionnaire responses from managers, financial managers and workers' representatives at establishments sampled. The main areas covered include: basic establishment data on size, industrial category, ownership, etc.; management organisation for industrial relations; union organisation; bargaining structure; procedures; payment methods; industrial action; the introduction of technical and organisational change and a variety of other factors.