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(WHAS11) - A huge group of Louisville city employees are split on whether to accept or reject a pay cut as a way to help balance the city budget.

Half of the Teamsters members think a pay cut is the only way to save their jobs.  The other half says the mayor hasn't looked hard enough for cuts in other areas.

Teamsters local 783 represents 800 city workers.  After a meeting this morning, those workers are split on whether to accept wage concessions or follow the lead of Louisville’s police officers, and tell Mayor Abramson to go jump in the lake.

The Louisville EMS employees, dispatchers and public works employees all called to their union hall Wednesday for a meeting about the mayor's request that they give up their 2-percent pay raises for the rest of the year to help balance the city budget. 

The second largest city employees union is torn between rejecting the mayor's request or taking the pay cut: 

The fraternal order of police has already rejected the administration's call for shared sacrifice, including from police officers wallets, to help cover the city's $20-million budget shortfall.    

Mayor Abramson is calling for shared sacrifice.  He and his top administrators have taken a 10-percent pay cut and Abramson tells WHAS11 news he has set a good example by drastically cutting his office's expenses.