(2018-09-02). Here Are 10 Ways Workers Are Truly Screwed in the Trump Era. alternet.org America's embattled working class is seriously screwed in the Trump era. | Labor Day has been a national holiday in the U. S. since 1894. Many struggles for workers' rights that have occurred since then, from the labor movement and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s/early 1940s to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. And history not only teaches us that gains in economic justice are incremental—it is also demonstrates. . .