Belgium: unions denounce legal appeals against picket lines

Can employers bring to court the appeal to pickets to prevent companies from accessing customers or workers? The question is being debated in Belgium after the blocking of several companies, especially Carrefour and Ikea's supermarkets. (Ref. 080890)
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As part of the social conflict which opposes
Carrefour’s management in Belgium to the Secta and CNE unions after the recent
opening of a hypermarket in Bruges, the management went to court several times
to obtain the end of strike pickets. The staff of the new supermarket is
subject to a less favorable collective agreement (equal commission 202.01),
notably in terms of scales, than employees from other supermarkets of the same
group. Employees are “protesting against the 25% wage decrease for t

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