Christopher L. Bauer v. Varity Dayton-Walther Corporation, Formerly Dayton-Walther Corporation

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff below, Christopher Bauer, appeals the district court’s award of summary judgment to his former employer, Varity Dayton-Walther Corporation (‘Varity”), on his claim brought under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

I

Bauer began working for Varity on April 27,1992. He was assigned shifts that included both weekends and ten-hour days, and he sometimes worked fifty-five-hour weeks. Bauer’s employment with Varity was governed by his union’s collective bargaining agreement,…