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Obviously they try to prevent the formation of a worker's council as much as possible. If they did anything more, managers would face jail, as it is punished quite hard to prevent the formation of a worker's council in Germany.

While you are correct, there are some law firms that help making it into a reality, naturally that isn't mentioned publicly.

There are some Betriebsrat trainings where this kind of issues gets talked about, and what are the legal means to counter-attack them.

You and I must have different definitions of "preventing someone from doing something", if yours doesn't include filing for injunctions.

> [...]they are not preventing the employees to form one, and will accept their decision.

That would be a crime in Germany, you can go to prison for and they are actually very very close to crossing that line, if they haven't already overstepped it.

They tried pretty damn hard to prevent it, filing two injunctions and calling the police on the election meeting...

I mean, they legally can't and have to, respectively.