He seems to be making the same mistake a lot of people are. Just because voice actors think they deserve to be payed more, doesn't mean they think they deserve to be payed more than the designers.
If their efforts to the effect of being payed properly for their work end up meaning they're being payed more than the artists and programmers, well maybe that just means that the artists and programmers are being ripped off even harder.

Truest words to be spoken by Deadpool.

Boy, I just love the mindset of "Oh, they're just fatcats, now, they don't know."  Was Nolan North, or Brad Pitt for that matter, born an actor?  Were they just put on a bunch of games and movies for no reason other than his birthright?  Or did they work their asses off to get to where they are?  I'll give you a hint, it's the last one.

And if they had to work their asses off to get to where they are, then so should others have to.  It shouldn't just be given to them.  This is the problem.  The minset of give me, give me without the work.  That and unions are now only concerned with giving their members higher pay and benefits just so they can make more money from union dues, even if in the end it costs their members jobs when the company goes elsewhere or shuts down.

Nolan is the coolest.

Exactly.  Just because you train for something or go to school for something doesn't guarantee you a job.  It's the same for all careers.  And you definitely shouldn't think you're going to be getting similar pay or benefits of someone who has been in the business for 20+ years.  Esepecially when that person got in it when conditions were even worse and they weren't just sitting there bitching about it.  They were working their asses off to get to where they are, now.  If you get those jobs as people in the background, working a couple of hours for $200, count your blessings.  Either get another job and just continue doing VA as a side job.  Or try to prove to the higher ups you have great talent and can start doing more central characters, working weeks, instead of just a day or two.

Made me think of this. :)

LMAO! Yea, sadly it seems some people actually believe that.  Or at the most, you just have to move to LA, do a few audtions, get into a couple bit parts, then BAM!...you're the costar of a movie.  Making a few 100 thou, quickly making your way to the millions.

And here's the kicker. The gaming industry has proposed its compensation plans, but the SAG-AFTRA leaders prohibited its members from voting. Rather odd that the leaders refuse to engage in a democratic process...

LOL good lord, that has to be the most off-base tangent I have ever seen in a retort on teh Chartz, which is saying a lot. Where did I say they don't know what it is like to be a smaller and struggling artist? Not all actors forget their roots. Where did I say or imply Nolan or Pitt did not work their butts off to get to where they are? I'll give you a hint, I didn't. And even if I had, who gives a shit? It's irrelevant to the point.

You are apparently oblivious to the idea of progress. Just because such and such person had to come up in certain conditions doesn't mean the next in line should. Or that the next person in line is somehow wrong for expecting to be treated differently. I don't think you really have a clue what is going on in the strike, who exactly is saying "give me give me without the work"? They want what they think is fairer compensation for their work.. not compensation for no work :)

Don't know the details of course. But it seems you don't know how these things work. The members of a union normally agree and vote on bottom lines before negotiations start. The union negotiators are given a mandate to negotiate, and that mandatre includes deciding whether the bottom lines have been met. If they decide the offer doesn't meet the bottom lines then they don't put the offer up for a vote. It saves union members from having to vote on each and every little movement the other side makes and prevents the employer / industry negotiators from making meaningless cosmetic changes to deals and effectively spamming the union by having them waste time by voting on every offer put forward.

But, you know, keep being an apologist for the actual fat cat arseholes who try to underpay everyone in the games industry.