Steven Olson v. Bemis Company, Incorporated

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Steven Olson worked for Bemis Company, Inc., at its factory in Neenah, Wisconsin, and was a member of the Local 2-0148, an affiliate of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO/CLC (“the Union”). He was injured on the job and later fired. The Union filed a grievance on Olson’s behalf as permitted under its collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”), and Bemis and the Union ultimately entered into a settlement under which Bemis agreed to pay Olson $20,000 in exchange for a waiver of…