SIR - The report from the TUC highlighting workers in Yorkshire suffering the longest pay freeze for many years, whilst bosses enjoy a financial bonanza, highlights an important ‘truth.’

It is that, whilst individual workers remain unable to come together to air their opinion and use their collective strength, they will continue to be badly treated in terms of pay and conditions at work.

The present situation with employees working the longest hours in Europe, with low pay prevalent and working conditions such as zero hours on the rise is not accidental or even necessary.

The present Government and certain employers have taken advantage of the present economic situation to impose their will, mainly against the interests of working people.

In other countries, workers are harder to bully, but working people in Britain have more become isolated and more easily pushed around.

I recall the Governor of the Bank of England reported as saying that he was amazed that the people of this country had so readily accepted what was going on and had not been demonstrating in the streets-how sad, but true!

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose