Like most other unions, the Communications Workers of America has voiced strong support for the Employee Free Choice Act.  From the CWA website:

To correct the injustices that have chilled the aspirations of millions of workers, CWA is urging the enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act. The Senate version of the bill is S. 842, introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The identical companion in the House is H.R. 1696, sponsored by Congressman George Miller (D-CA). More than 40 Senators and in excess of 200 Representatives have cosponsored this landmark legislation.

The Employee Free Choice Act provides for the certification of a union as the bargaining representative if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds that a majority of employees in an appropriate bargaining unit have signed written forms designating the union as its collective bargaining agent. This method of union certification is known as card-check.

Card-check procedures have been legal throughout the life of the National Labor Relations Act. CWA has used card-check successfully to attain recognition as the bargaining agent of workers employed by Cingular Wireless. But under current law, management can undermine card-check by refusing to recognize a union even when 100 per cent of the workers have signed union authorization forms. Instead, management can demand an NLRB election that enables management to intimidate workers through an anti-worker campaign. Requiring union certification when a majority of workers have signed recognition cards would prevent this abuse.

But, Phil Wilson of Labor Relations Institute discovered that maybe even the CWA realizes that secret ballots are preferable.  According to an NLRB Petition, a group of CWA employees sought to form a union of their own to deal with the union regarding their own employment issues.  The  CWA Staff Union requested voluntary recognition on May 6, 2007, but that request was denied by the CWA on June 14.  Mr. Wilson noted in an earlier post that:  "Since 2000 unions forced their employees into secret ballot elections 126 different times."