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Ameron, union plan talks

Ameron Hawaii and the Hawai'i Teamsters and Allied Workers, Local 996, will resume contract negotiations at 3 p.m. Tuesday to try to end part of O'ahu's 37-day-old concrete strike.

The two sides last met on March 4. No negotiations have been scheduled between the Teamsters and Hawai'i's other major concrete company, Hawaiian Cement.

Hawaiian gets lease extension

Hawaiian Airlines has won an eighth extension to renegotiate its aircraft leases with Boeing Capital Corp.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge yesterday granted a one-month extension to April 15.

Hawaiian leases 14 Boeing aircraft. Hawaiian filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in March 2003.

CPB schedules conference call

Central Pacific Financial Corp., parent of Central Pacific Bank, plans to hold an investor conference call Monday.

Clint Arnoldus, Central Pacific's president and CEO, and Neal Kanda, vice president and treasurer, will answer questions. The conference call comes as banking rival City Bank renewed its fight against a merger attempt by Central Pacific.

The conference call is scheduled for 3 a.m. Hawai'i time, but a playback will be available later in the day by calling (800) 428-6051 and entering the reference number 344315.