AUGUSTA — About 40 members of the Maine State Employees Association rallied at Buker Park today to draw attention to their efforts to unionize employees at Medical Care Development.

Mike Sylvester, organizing director for the union, said workers at the company have been threatened that if they organize, they will not get raises and could lose health insurance.

“The members of (the union) will stand by these workers to stop anti-worker tactics,” he said.

A receptionist at the company, which provides services for the disabled and the elderly, said there was no one available to comment today. But last week, company President John LaCasse said the allegations of threats from management are “absolutely false.”

“We’ve always treated our workers very fairly,” he said. “We give them pensions, health insurance benefits, and many other benefits others don’t provide. We aren’t doing anything for or against what they are doing to unionize.”