THERE ARE NO UNFAIR WAGES. If a job is paying 2 dollars an hour, that is a reflection of the fact that way too many people are vying for that job. Raising the minimum wage to 8 dollars an hour just causes employers to hire 1/4 (or much less than 1/4) as many of those people and they usually pick them in discriminatory ways (see the black unemployment rate in America). Employers should pay employees the least possible amount they can to keep costs down and minimize the prices of goods and services in the economy, and employees should actively seek better options. It is the combined vigilance of the employee and employer that correctly determines the price of labor, there is no "fair."
Unsafe working conditions is a more nuanced problem because who is to say what an unsafe condition is? I think most of us can agree that a factory with over 110 degree fahrenheit temperature is unsafe for workers but what should it be? 90? 80? Room temperature? Even child labor laws are very debatable. If third world countries made it illegal for underage 16 to work, starvation and poverty would skyrocket in those countries. Laws decreeing what conditions the workers should have tend to create better conditions at the expense of insane amounts of building codes and red tape that make starting or running a business in America one of the riskiest and most expensive endeavors in the world. I'm not saying there shouldn't be laws, but find some middle ground.
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