jc: You just blew by the fact that I was defending the existence of unions

Which, as you just made plain, does not mean you defend the existence of worker safety, minimum wage, and child labor laws.

jc: My answer to those are going to be necessarily complex, time consuming, and probably off-topic, because short, curt, yes-or-no answers will be easily demagogued.

In other words, the answer is probably "no," to at least one of these, but you don't look forward to having to defend such a stance, which would involve an awful lot of verbal and logical gymnastics.