Under Section 8(a) (2) of the NLRA, representation plans in which employees provide ideas to management through brainstorming and information-sharing sessions are considered legal because:

A) They aren't actual "committees"
B) Management is just collecting information from employees, not negotiating with them
C) Management is giving employees a chance to give their input
D) Unions have endorsed them

Section 8(a)(2)

A provision within the National Labor Relations Act in the United States that prohibits employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of their rights to organize and bargain collectively.

Legal

Pertaining to the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.