their employer leases fairies ferries from eurotunnel. reporter: employees fought for months to keep their jobs, by sea or by land. on monday, a breakthrough. eurotunnel will sell two ferries 487fds, downsizing from the people provided by the cooperative seafrance. they will create 400 jobs, 200 dfds,urotunnel and 200 by the idea being to rehire seafrance employees. those unemployed by the start of the year will receive 20,000 euros in severance pay. >> we could have demanded more money, but that was not our goal. we wanted to preserve as many jobs as we could. reporter: some workers feel their futures are far from certain. >> no one is being rehired. >> you have no guarantees? >> none at all. reporter: since june, workers went on strike and occupied ferries, costing the economy millions of euros. >> i don't see why it had to take this long. disrupting the ports. business was down 30% for hotels, restaurants, and shopkeepers. investedany employees their own time and money in hoping to save every job. while a deal may have been reached for