About 20 workers, students and local MPP candidates gathered outside Hamilton's Mohawk College Wednesday — where a fifth of full-time jobs have been cut since December — to call on the province to better fund post-secondary education.

Unionized college workers also rallied in Kingston, Belleville and Toronto, drawing attention to a series of recent job and program cuts they blame in part on the Ontario government. 

Cuts at colleges are affecting entire communities, said Heather Giardine-Tuck, who…