You may want to listen to this talk by wobbly Dave Kerin and John Cleary on plans by unionists to establish worker-controlled factories to combat climate change. 

http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/bib/PR0001801.htm 

The Return of the One Big Union? Syndicalism and the IWW in Australia and Sweden.

audio at: http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/bib/PR0001754.htm

Recorded by Jack Roberts, at Victorian Trades Hall, Carlton Melbourne, Australia. Discussion with Dave Kerin and Gabriel Kuhn on syndicalism in Australia and Sweden.

It mainly focuses on the experiences of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in Australia but also makes some comparison with the case of the SAC (Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden, an anarcho-syndicalist federation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Tresca

Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel Nunzio Pernicone Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 1403964785 http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2996

Carlo Tresca is one of those rebel workers whose memory deserves to be honoured and Pernicone's excellent biography does just that...He switched political sympathies from social democracy to syndicalism as he realised the inherent reformism of the former and the importance of the direct action of the latter.

He become associated with the IWW, taking part in strikes of Pennsylvania coal miners before becoming involved in many important (even legendary) industrial disputes. Overtime his syndicalism turned into anarcho-syndicalism and he became one of the leading anarchists in America, particularly in the Italian-American community. His agitation was legendary, including the victorious strike in Lawrence (1912), the Little Falls, New York textile workers' strike (1912), the New York City hotel workers' strike (1913), the Paterson, New Jersey silk workers' strike (1913), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, miners' strike (1916).

From: http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/anzac-day-anti-militarist-action-25-april/

As in past years, while tens of thousands at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance and elsewhere around the country did what they thought appropriate, others, numbering hardly more than ten, met outside the former headquarters of the Melbourne branch of the Industrial Workers of the World in a commemoration with a different flavour.

As a speaker recalled, it was the IWW that spearheaded the anti-conscription campaign during WWI without which Australia’s already appalling tally of dead and wounded would undoubtedly have been far greater.